Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortly after 8 o'clock on Sunday night, Staff Sergeant Matthew C. McKeon, favoring a pulled leg muscle, limped into the barracks of Platoon 71 at the U.S. Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, S.C. As the shaven-headed Marine boots popped to attention, McKeon gazed coldly around and snapped: "Fall out in two minutes." The men-mostly 17-and 18-year-olds-grabbed for their caps and fatigue jackets, scrambled for the door, formed outside the barracks. Lean, usually soft-spoken Matt McKeon, 31, rapped out a crisp command and, using a broomstick for support on his lame...
...snowbound. By resolving student's doubts about exams, the University could enable him to turn to a really constructive occupation--the mute and blissful contemplation of blankness. Unbothered by other cares, the student could gaze wistfully at the falling flakes, developing his soul and a death wish. Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle and other notables have expounded the virtues of silence. Is the University for liberal education? Is the University really for mysticism? We have a right to know...
...example of reading prepared for students is the issue created by Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway's farewell letter, written after he had been denied reappointment to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Ridgway had sevely criticized the proposed 300,000 man cut in the Army personnel and had been attacked in return. When he left his post, he defended his position and the original size of the Army. Readings on both sides of the question are provided, with appropriate comment. These, as all the readings, are available to anyone who has use for them. Bundy and H. Bradford Westerfield, instructor...
...heresy and blasphemy [Jesus Ben Pandira] was stoned, and hanged upon a tree." Among the prophet's pupils, Steiner concluded, was a favorite named Netzer, who founded an Essene community at Nazareth. After the return from Egypt, Jesus was taken to Nazareth "that (in the words of St. Matthew) it might be fulfilled what was spoken by the prophets: He shall become a Nazarene." Becoming a Nazarene, said Steiner, meant becoming an initiate of Netzer's Essene community: "There the early years of Jesus were to be passed...
...Brother Matthew, Brother Bartholomew and Brother Stanislaus take their vows this week at the Servite Monastery on Van Buren Street in Chicago. Brother Stanislaus came from the Polish army and five years in a German prison camp. Brother Bartholomew came from the retail clothing trade in Chicago, where he was known to fellow salesmen as "Two-Pants Murphy." And Brother Matthew came from the honky-tonk world of red-hot, blue-air, 4-in-the-morning jazz; his name was Boyce Brown...