Word: grahams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...packing along Singer Anita Bryant, Professional Harpy Phyllis Diller. Go-Go Dancer Joey Heatherton, and the new Miss World, India's Reita Faria. While the plane refueled at Wake Island on the way to bases in the Philippines, Guam, Thailand and Viet Nam, Hope observed that Evangelist Billy Graham had just left Wake en route to Viet Nam and that New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman would be stopping over soon as he began his Christmas mission to the war zone. Cracked Hope: "That's the kind of book ends I like on a trip like this...
Esquire magazine ran a full-page color portrait of the Three Wise Men seen as contemporaries: they turned out to be Evangelist Billy Graham, Playboy Hugh Hefner and the psychedelic professor, Timothy Leary. Cosmopolitan advised readers suffering from "holiday neurosis" to consult a psychiatrist for Christmas. The lead piece in the Reader's Digest concerned a housewife so exhausted by her Christmas chores that she finally broke down alongside her dishwasher: "Tears filled my eyes. Suddenly, it all seemed too much: the dirty dishes, the too-tight schedule. Christmas didn't seem worth...
...under the logotype, all was familiar, and the Trib's Jock Whitney was in Paris with his new cochairman, the Post's Kay Graham, to celebrate the combined operation. Their enthusiasm promised the international edition of the New York Times a fight to the death...
...Billy Graham's appearance as a main speaker before the National Council of Churches' triennial assembly in Miami last week threw into one arena the two divergent operational concepts of modern-day Christianity: Graham's concern for the individual soul and the council's stress on involvement with the world. To many, these approaches have seemed opposites; the mere fact of Gra ham's invitation and acceptance was a bit of an eyebrow raiser. But Graham neatly managed to synthesize his own modified views and the council's: he said that social action...
...mainstream Protestant members and the conservative evangelical churches have more and more come to realize - as one of the most eloquent social activists, Harvey Cox of Harvard's Divinity School, put it - that the conflict between evangelism and social action is "mistaken." Evangelical churchmen, such as Graham and Christianity Today Editor Carl Henry, now increasingly stress that spiritual conversion inevitably finds expression in action for the social good. Similarly, National Council leaders have become more aware that activism without spiritual underpinnings is religiously meaningless...