Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps recalling the plentiful publicity that accrued years ago when Oklahoma's stogie-chomping Governor Alfalfa Bill Murray planted chickpeas on the lawn of the gubernatorial mansion, Michigan's boyish Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams staged a cow-milking contest on the front lawn of the statehouse (for Lansing's June Dairy Month). Snuggling up to a Guernsey, Princeton-educated Soapy seized the controls confidently, but could not shift out of neutral, squeezed out fourth in a field of four. Winner: Lansing's Mayor Ralph Crego...
...ever Helen O'Connell. Tennessee Ernie Ford will end his daytime pea-pickin' at June's end and be replaced by Bride and Groom, the old daytime stand-by that marries couples on the air and presents them with gifts, a reception and honeymoon. Arthur Murray Party, a perennial replacement, has already bounced cheerily on screen in full color, and will move into half of Robert Montgomery's Monday place next month. Although such giveaways as Tic Tac Dough and The Price Is Right trudge on in the daytime, NBC will cancel Home...
...CHRISTIAN IDEA OF EDUCATION, a seminar at Kent School, including papers and discussions by Stephen F. Bayne, Jr., Georges Florovsky, E. Harris Harbison, Jacques Maritain, John Courtney Murray, Reinhold Niebuhr, Alan Paton, William G. Pollard, and Massey H. Shepherd, Jr.; edited by Edmund Fuller, Yale University Press, 265 pages...
Most of the thinkers represented in the Kent School symposium believe that while revivalism is seldom Christian in any important sense, it can be the beginning of a real cultural baptism. Their arguments, best presented in the papers by Florovsky, Murray, Pollard, and Niebuhr, are fascinating, if unconvincing...
...discussing the first question, Murray and Niebuhr are particularly relevant. Murray suggests the example of Origen, who was the first man to devise a truly Christian education, that is, an education which tried to subsume all knowledge into the Christian Revelation. Origen felt that only the man who had mastered all the intricacies of Hellenic thought could hope to convert Alexandria. And so he set to work to incorporate the rationalism, pluralism, secularism, the skeptical positivistic tradition which emphasized what men knew over what he did not know, the world of Alexandria's Academy and Library, the anomic world...