Word: niebuhrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yale faculty are men like fiery Historian Samuel Flagg Bemis, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner (Pinckney's Treaty; John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy); cherubic Composer Paul Hindemith; Botanist Paul Burkholder, who helped develop chloromycetin; Cleanth Brooks of the New Criticism; and Theologian H. Richard Niebuhr, brother of Reinhold, in the Divinity School...
...liberals, the weekly Nation last week suffered some crippling casualties. Executive Editor Harold C. Field, righthand man of Editor Freda Kirchwey for the past two years, quietly resigned, effective the end of June. Two longtime contributors already had pulled their names from the Nation's masthead: Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, for 15 years a staff contributor, and Political Writer Robert Bendiner, contributing editor and onetime (1937-44) managing editor...
Said Theologian Niebuhr this week: "The libel suit . . . brought to a head my disagreement with the Nation on foreign policy." Added Bendiner: "I did not want the continued use of my name on the masthead to imply support of the suit against the New Leader ... a tragic mistake." Gossip in liberal circles said that Editor Field, too, disapproved of the suit, although he insisted he was leaving for "mostly personal reasons." But it was apparent that most liberals seemed to think a liberal publication should be a forum where differences of political opinion could be aired and debated, and that...
...Reinhold Niebuhr has accepted an invitation to speak at the Club's meetings next March...
...think of him as a missionary for a particular faith, but rather as an advocate for faith itself. But he would be a singularly non-partisan Preacher who could help men to achieve a faith other than, or perhaps opposed to, his own. There are a few churchmen (Reinhold Niebuhr has been invoked many times in these discussions) who can be said to have this breadth of mind, but there are very few, and hence it is exceedingly doubtful that one could be found to come to Harvard...