Word: maryland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spreading alms of the Ford Foundation last week embraced five U.S. universities in a $46 million hug. The aim: to give each region of the nation more great private institutions. The winners: California's Stanford ($25 million), Indiana's Notre Dame ($6,000,000), Maryland's Johns Hopkins ($6,000,000), Colorado's Denver ($5,000,000) and Tennessee's Vanderbilt ($4,000,000). It was the biggest single Ford gift since the 1955 windfall that boosted faculty salaries across the land by $500 million...
...sibling rivalry of the Christian family. Protestants and Catholics often carp at each other more like brothers and sisters than brethren in Christ. This kind of religious infighting in which slights outweigh insights has no appeal to Jesuit Theologian Gustave Weigel, professor of ecclesiology* at Maryland's Woodstock College. In the current issue of The Catholic World, Father Weigel provides an equably tempered, coolly reasoned analysis of what he calls "The Protestant Stance Today." Conventional Protestants who have given the matter little thought may be somewhat surprised at Father Weigel's spadework in the intellectual subsoil...
...sideshow was not unexpected. Last July, when Martin and Mitchell did not come back from a sum mer vacation, NSA men broke into Mitchell's home in Laurel, Md. They found the place a shambles, and they were par ticularly intrigued by a set of safe-deposit keys. Maryland State Police got a court order to open Mitchell's safe-deposit box in the State Bank of Laurel, and there, indeed, was the typewritten defection statement...
...Weed Factor, by John Barth. This comedy of picaresque errors and escapades, set in colonial Maryland, is as deadly serious as it is wildly funny. Its sobering thesis: since man cannot penetrate the multiple masks of reality, he can never really know himself...
...tutor-one Henry Burlingame, an unreconstructed rascal who appears throughout the book in a variety of disguises, extricating Ebenezer from the folly of his own innocence and "playing the world like a harpsichord." Disguised as Charles Calvert, Lord Baltimore, Burlingame appoints Ebenezer Poet and Laureate of the Province of Maryland, commissions him to compose an epic poem to be called the Marylandiad...