Word: lindberg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Institute in Englewood, Colo. "We don't use the Gospels or the Ten Commandments or the Beatitudes any more. Instead we talk about God in terms of the prisoners' experience. God has to be something they understand, not just an authoritarian father image." Says Lutheran Pastor Harold Lindberg, chaplain at Ohio Penitentiary: "I stress things like Paul's calling men to victorious living. Without using those exact words, I try to make these men agree that they are children...
...dress, you can get 18 months in jail; but if you cheat for $100,000 on your income tax, you can get a suspended sentence and fine." Another constant concern is the prisoners' intense and persistent fear of dying in prison-"to them the height of degradation," says Lindberg...
...just here to share with you what you've been going through." Colorado's Graham, like other chaplains, is aware that prisoners actively dislike people "messing around with their minds," and that sometimes a jolt of realism does as much good as a soft word. Lutheran Lindberg bluntly tells down-in-the-mouth prisoners that "if they think they are bastards they're going to act like bastards...
John Allman '67. Stuart Davis '67. and Reeve M. Lindberg '67 will read their own stories and poems at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Leverett House Old Library. Coffee and an informal discussion will follow the readings...
...errors caused by sound-alike exchange names such as MItchell and MUtual; no more confusion over dialing PA for PEnnsylvania instead of PE; elimination of letters themselves from dials, making them easier to use; the possibility of worldwide direct dialing, even to countries with exotic alphabets. Says Leland B. Lindberg, American Telephone & Telegraph spokesman: "This is the least undesirable way of increasing combinations...