Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pronounced pay) from childhood. A Chinese banker's son, he came to the U.S. for his education, won top grades at M.I.T., and was invited by Walter Gropius to teach architecture at Harvard. After World War II, when Communism cut short his childhood dream of rebuilding his homeland, Pei turned to his adopted land's growing problem-the rejuvenation of the city...
...best, Director Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Argentina's foremost film maker, studies his homeland with an unblinking poet's eye that invites comparison to Antonioni and Bergman. He deftly juggles modish effects, melding sun and skin into the languid what-next boredom of a summer afternoon or exposing the backbone of a scene with the blinding suddenness of a flashbulb popping in the dark...
...obsolete," Dr. Truman Douglass told a meeting of the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries in St. Louis last week. "The new world now emerging demands a new style of church and leadership for which we are unprepared." Perhaps more than any other U.S. Protestant body, the experiment-minded United Church of Christ (membership: 2,100,000) is searching for a new style, testing means of modern evangelism to reach people who have lost touch with, and faith in, organized Christianity. Dr. Douglass, executive vice-president of the United Church Board, describes these experiments as "unstructured ministries." The theory behind...
...despite opposition from more traditional clergymen, believes that the church "must meet people where they carry on their most vital tasks." In Detroit, United Church, Presbyterian and Episcopal ministers jointly carry on an industrial mission at 30 factories, visiting both workers and management during lunch hours. Last week, the Homeland Ministries Board approved the assignment of a minister to live and work in one of Pittsburgh's new high-rise apartment buildings. His "church" will be the laundry room, the sundeck, the lobby-anywhere that residents gather to talk...
...immigrant from Europe, said Handlin, wanted a Church with the social and communal peculiarities of his homeland and looked on the parish church as a part of his cultural community...