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...first priority, Sterling set out to rebuild Stanford's faculty with a small cadre of ambitious professors who spread the gospel of Bay area living all over the East and Midwest. Instead of high pay, Stanford offered such lures as 100% loans for building handsome ranch houses on university land. To snag former Harvard Sociologist Sanford M. Dornbusch, Stanford doubled its sociology department with men of his choice. In similar deals Stanford captured American Historian David Potter after 19 years at Yale, German Historian Gordon Craig after 20 years at Princeton, Novelist-Critic Albert J. Guerard after 23 years...
...Says John Hobgood of the Chicago Commission on Human Relations: "These Pentecostal churches are, by and large, an unintelligent operation in the sense that they usually don't encourage or equip the Puerto Rican to function in the larger community in which he must live." Rejecting the social gospel, Pentecostals concentrate instead on a puritanical personal morality. Members shun cigarettes and whisky; women wear no makeup...
...LITURGY. The council will not abolish Latin as the liturgical language of Western-rite Catholics, but will probably let regional or national councils of bishops make vernacular translations for the parts of the Mass specifically addressed to the congregation-the Epistle and Gospel, for instance. At the request of their priests, some bishops will push for a drastic shortening of the breviary, the collections of psalms, verses and readings that ordained clerics must recite every day. Missionaries may get more authority to incorporate native customs and religious practices into baptism, marriage and funeral rites...
...small town and small congregation, the Gospel of Christ is severely dam aged every time a guy like Wilkes makes his Madison Avenue pronouncements...
...faith healer, as loyal TV watchers know, is likely to be a hot-eyed spellbinder, his eye cocked to the collection plate and his theology about as solidly grounded as his gospel tent. But in Philadelphia a fortnight ago, the suffering who came forward to be healed-a retarded girl of about six, an old man with an ugly facial growth-received a blessing as dignified as the setting: 139-year-old St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. "This is no hocus-pocus," said St. Stephen's Rector Alfred Price from the pulpit. "This is a sacrament...