Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recessive characteristics of a generation of fruit flies, and in the humanities course their discussion ranged from early Greek metrical forms to a comparison of a Beethoven string quartet and T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets. In social studies they have sampled everything from De Tocqueville to William Graham Sumner. But however tough the work, they seem to thrive. Says Chicago's Assistant Professor Guy Omer Jr. of his science class: "I drew the lessons from our third-year college work, and this bunch of high-school kids has on the whole done as well in five weeks...
...LITTLE HORSE BUS, by Graham Greene (Lothrop; $2), carries its author far from his tortuous bypaths of sin and salvation. This is a sunny-spirited little brief for the old corner "grocer's shop" v. the Cellophane-wrapped modernity of a "Hygienic Emporium." A rickety but gallant old horse bus wins the day for tradition in a cops-and-robbers chase, while Illustrator Dorothy Craigie splashes each page with eye-catching color...
...Billy Graham should practice some of the less lucrative and self-glorifying virtues; there is something about not casting stones...
...your July 5 article, "Billy in Germany": Mr. Graham, never high up in my estimation, has now reached rock bottom. The old, old cliche about the French being sinful was used by Hitler and his associates. Is this why Mr. G. brought it up in front of a German audience? Not too wise either way for a Christian...
...enough of these meetings to know that He's here tonight." "Some 700 of the 28,000 Germans followed ushers into the tent for the converted. Outside, a guard advised the curious: "Entry only for those who have turned to Jesus Christ tonight." Soon after the meeting, Graham doubled up in pain; German physicians diagnosed the trouble as a "blocked kidney." But next day, Graham hopped off to Berlin for another big revival sermon to 70,000 in the vast Olympic Stadium. Then Graham fell ill again, not seriously. But it was enough to delay his next mission...