Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Those present included everyone from Robert Frost to the ghost of General Burgoyne. President Pusey, James Phinney Baxter III '17, the first Master of Adams House, Bernard Ballyn, associate professor of History, and Frost addressed the ceremonial dinner at Adams House...
...Ghost Pilot. Under the new deal TWA will be controlled by three trustees, two representing the lenders and one Hughes, until Hughes pays off the debt. TWA is used to operating with a ghost pilot, has been without a president and chief executive for over two months since ex-Secretary of the Navy Charles Thomas resigned. In two years as TWA boss, Thomas revamped the ailing airline's management, slashed operating costs, turned a $1,764,000 deficit the year he took over into profits of $9,400,000 in 1959. When Hughes first went looking for loan money...
Published last week was a new book on the Holy Ghost that will interest many a man in the pew as well as in the pulpit. In The Holy Spirit and Modern Thought (Harper; $4.50), Anglican Canon Lindsay Dewar, a Fellow of King's College, London, concisely surveys the history of thought about the Holy Ghost from the Old Testament concept of ruach, the "breath" or spirit of God, to his own arresting hypothesis that the Holy Spirit works through the unconscious with extrasensory perception...
Irrational Individualism. The commonest mistake about the Holy Ghost, writes Canon Dewar, is to say "it" instead of "He." The gift of the Holy Spirit is "not the bestowal of a thing but the action of a person." The classic description of the Holy Spirit appears in the Gospel of John, where Jesus is quoted as promising to send the disciples "the Paraclete"-a Greek word variously translated as "comforter," "advocate," or "counselor"-to remind them of Jesus' teaching and to guide them to truth. At Pentecost, the 50th day after the Resurrection, the Holy Spirit descended upon...
Thereafter, the "gift of the Holy Ghost" came to be associated with glossolalia, or speaking in tongues, (TIME, Aug. 15) and was sometimes thought to be conferred by baptism or the laying on of hands. St. Augustine of Hippo (354/430) taught that the gift of the Holy Spirit could only be present in the unity of the church, that outsiders could not receive Him. But Martin Luther (1483-1546) took no account at all of the "fellowship of the Spirit." The Holy Ghost, he thought, descended upon one man and not another with no rational explanation ("Faith killeth reason...