Word: normans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pulpit. In 1949, he took over as chaplain at Columbia University and head of its meager religion department. Pike brought in good new teachers, including Paul Tillich as an adjunct professor. To upgrade his own academic credentials, Pike submitted chapters of his book Faith of the Church (written with Norman Pittenger and still used in Episcopal lay teaching), plus some other writing and his law doctorate, and got a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary without taking a single course in theology. In 1952, Bishop Horace Donegan offered him the long-vacant post of dean of St. John...
Standing on the terrace of the only marble building on the University of California's Los Angeles campus, the sometime ophthalmologist dedicated the Jules Stein Eye Institute to the cause of preventing blindness. Said London's Professor Norman Ashton: "You have earned the gratitude of many people, but the deepest gratitude will never be expressed-nor can it be. It will be found in the eyes of those who live after us, who drink in the visual beauties of life without fearing the loss of that vision, and who may say, 'It is wonderful...
...Norman Garmezy, one of the world's leading experts on schizophrenia, will become the head of Harvard's graduate program in Clinical Psychology next fall...
...exactly 900 years ago last week that Harold, last of the Saxon kings, became the most disastrous name in British history. On Oct. 14, 1066, in a green field seven miles northwest of the coastal town of Hastings, his 6,000-man army was cut down by the Norman invaders of William the Conqueror. Harold was slaughtered, and the language, civilization and blood of Englishmen were changed forever. Englishmen have been celebrating the anniversary all year-in the traditional manner of today's Britain...
...Battle of Hastings 1066-Bottle of Guinness 1966," frothed a thousand billboards. "Whoosh! It's another big breakaway conquest," proclaimed the makers of Bri Nylon clothing in ads picturing mounted Bri Nyloned models setting forth against the Saxons; another version of the battle showed the Norman warriors armed with Desoutter Power Tools. Heinz offered its soup buyers a chance to enter an archery contest in which the first 1,066 winners would be rewarded with Kenwood Chef food mixers and Arrow shirts. And, in ads boosting its Neo-Medrone Acne Lotion, the Upjohn pharmaceutical company captioned a drawing...