Word: hartnett
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...night last week in New Haven, Conn., an overflow crowd of some 800 students turned out to hear the Yale Law School Student Association stage a debate between Author Blanshard and the personable, brilliant Rev. Robert C. Hartnett...
...broad-shouldered Father Hartnett scribbled notes diligently while Blanshard talked and, when he got his turn, quickly abandoned his prepared speech to speak off the cuff. The trouble with Blanshard, he said, "is his lack of firsthand knowledge of Catholicism. Reviewers have praised his book for its documentation. Why does he have to document it so much? . . . Because the man does not know the Catholic Church like those of us who are on the inside. It's very much like the foreigner who had never visited the United States, but wrote a book about it from our Constitution...
...rules of the debate gave Blanshard and Hartnett each 25 minutes for their opening statements, two five-minute rebuttals for Blanshard, a ten-minute rebuttal for Hartnett, and a final half-hour of questions from the floor. Instead of a symmetrical, point-by-point exchange of attack and riposte, the discussion often became a kind of verbal Indian warfare, with the opponents sniping at each other from whatever cover was handy. But certain key points came sharply into focus...
...Replied Hartnett: "This charge that the Catholics don't believe in the separation of Church & State ... is simply false . . . Cardinal Gibbons set the tone for the American Catholics in an article he wrote ... in 1909 . . . 'American Catholics,' he said, 'rejoice in our separation of Church & State and I can conceive no combination of circumstances will arise which would make a union desirable for either Church or State...
...Cardinals. Others hailed big Bill Lee, winner of 22 games this season, who pitched on four successive days last week; Dizzy Dean who, even with his sore arm, beat the Pirates in the first game of their crucial series just before the final series in St. Louis; Manager Gabby Hartnett who, knowing Dizzy Dean's love for dramatic spots, smartly selected him to pitch the crucial game, then next day socked the homer that put the Cubs in first place; and Owner Philip K. Wrigley, who selected Go-getter Hartnett as the necessary sparkplug to win this year...