Word: handbooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Johannes Cardinal de Jong, 69, Archbishop of Utrecht, courageous anti-Nazi during World War II as chief Catholic prelate in The Netherlands, author of the classic Handbook of Church History; after long illness; in Amersfoort, The Netherlands. Ailing on the date of the Consistory in 1946 when he was to have been elevated to cardinal, Archbishop de Jong received the red hat of office from Pope Pius XII in a special ceremony at Pope Pius' summer residence eight months later, was the first resident cardinal in The Netherlands since the Reformation...
...book a glossary; to compile it, he has evidently tramped the great lava beds of Soviet journalism, literature, ukases, encyclopedias, decrees and polemics, and toiled in the lead mines of the Marx-Engels-Lenin-Stalin classics. The result is not a formal study, but a beginner's handbook of what might be called progressive pidgin, published in England under the honest title of Doubletalk...
...ministry from a different perspective: he is pastor of the First Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Va. His slim book, Dear Charles (Macmillan; $2.50), is a light but merciless exposé of the rituals of tinkling cymbalism. It is more disturbing than Gantry because it could easily pass as the handbook of many a modern clergyman...
...said the principal, and handed out good-conduct marks. The school's teaching staff agreed, taking the position that "the schools should not punish, now that society no longer does." The outraged Bible teacher appealed to the school board, which simply referred him to the official handbook on sex education in public schools-"Established sex relations between youngsters may not be contrary to the general viewpoint in their circles . . ." -and upheld the principal...
...sure the Lampoon does not wish its initiates to show up in such a bad light. It is obvious that they have just run out of creative ideas. Perhaps they might look in a boy scout handbook-many young groups have great fun at boy scout games. The other members of this University certainly ought to cooperate, to help these "fools" find some more satisfying means of relieving their frustration. It would seem that such talent could find a more truly humorous outlet; it really does not have to sink to the level to simply annoying professors. Jeffray Kramer...