Word: layman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...topflight Presbyterian layman (his daughter Lillias, wife of Manhattan publicist Robert Hinshaw, is a graduate of Union Theological Seminary), Dulles began to devote more and more time to considering the relationship of church and state in foreign policy, attended conferences and talks on the topic across the U.S., in Britain, in Chiang Kai-shek's embattled China. In February 1941 Dulles was named chairman of the Federal Council of Churches' influential Commission to Study the Bases of a Just and Durable Peace...
...also the present holder of the Peabody chair: "We have two kinds of exhibits in the Museum. Since we realize that much of our wonderful collection is of general interest, we show the most flashy material in the large halls, where our explanations are simple and directed to the layman who just wants a background at the level of Anthropology 1. The other type of exhibit is the highly specialized one, the sort of showing that only a very careful general observer could understand. These are designed as study aids for graduate courses and fill the smaller rooms. Their highly...
...Religion and the Schools. What emerged was a topflight summary of familiar views, and a sharp breach among the experts. Against aid for parochial schools: the one agnostic, Economics Professor Robert Lekachman of Barnard College, and Rabbi Robert Gordis of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. For aid: Catholic Layman William Gorman, onetime associate director of the Institute for Philosophical Research, and the Rev. Dr. F. Ernest Johnson of the (Protestant) National Council of Churches of Christ...
Full Conscience. It is not that simple, suggested Catholic Layman William Gorman. In his view, there is a good case for an "adjustment" in aid if nothing else. Gorman's reasoning is that parents in a free society have a prior right in the education of children, who are merely on loan to the school as surrogate. Though society guarantees that the school may be of any persuasion, if it meets public standards, Catholics are penalized for exercising this guarantee. "It is radically unjust and in violation of the abiding spirit of constitutional government," wrote Gorman, "to allow...
...wealthy English stockbroker, educated at Rugby and Cambridge, Guy Clutton-Brock planned to enter the Anglican ministry, then decided to devote his life to works as a layman. His works came to include rehabilitating prisoners in England, youth counseling in postwar Berlin, three years as a farm laborer and market gardener. Ten years ago, he was called to St. Faith's Anglican mission in South Rhodesia. His job: to help revive St. Faith's 10,000 acres of impoverished soil, bring African workers back from the towns to live on the land...