Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Earlier, in the journal Surgery, Dr. Paul T. Lahti told of 611 consecutive patients he sent home even more speedily from the William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich., and Grace Hospital in Detroit. Of 67 appendicitis patients, only seven stayed in the hospital even as long as the average Norwalk patient. All 87 of his young single-hernia patients were sent home within two days of their operations. Of 72 gall-bladder convalescents, 59 were out in five days...
...made recently by Switzerland's venerable Karl Earth, in Part 4 of Volume IV of his ever expanding masterwork, Church Dogmatics. In his latest book, Barth argues that there is no Biblical basis for infant baptism and that the ritual is not an act of God's grace but a human response to it-which means that the individual must be mature enough to understand the meaning of such a decision. The traditional under standing of the sacrament, he says, is simply "an old error of the church...
Presbyterian Leader Rev. Henry Anderson of Illinois defends baptism as a genuine covenant, a "real and authentic religious act, the grace of God's concern for his people through the parents as mediators...
...gentler-seeming kind of folk, More leisurely, as if their ways, Inherited from better days, Knew mildness and the atmosphere Held in suspension, even here, A sense of ceremonial, Of courtesy, of ritual, As if even here, unconsciously, We moved in grave amenity, Or dwelt in grace, as if the air Bespoke us laudable and fair...
...last, in bright decorum going by With the bloom on them, and the heads held high, In all their delicate, fastidious, proud Grace and perfection stepping past the crowd...