Word: olivet
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...societies of Methodism, which then was merely a dissident Anglican sect. Last week more than 2,300 modern Methodists, including 40 bishops, were on hand in Baltimore to celebrate their church's entry into its third century. Confidently, the delegates buried a stainless-steel time capsule in Mount Olivet Cemetery, to be opened by tricentennial-celebrating Methodists...
Because he has stayed aloof from the civil rights revolution, Jackson is often called an "Uncle Tom" by local leaders of CORE, SNICK and N.A.A.C.P.; civil rights pickets periodically march outside his Olivet Baptist Church in south Chicago. In return, Jackson has denounced as un-Christian demonstrations outside segregated churches, and insists: "I can't harmonize picketing with praying." Jackson condemns civil disobedience on the ground that no one has the right "to break any law, even if it is morally wrong." He believes that integration should be achieved strictly through governmental process, and has urged his National Baptists...
Back home, Swainson enrolled in Michigan's Olivet College, met and married blonde Alice Nielsen: "She was the cutest girl in the school, and she didn't try to baby me." He took a law degree at the University of North Carolina, moved back to Detroit, started attending political meetings because "it was a good way to build up a law practice." One day in 1954, Democratic leaders casually invited him to run for the state senate. "They came around looking for someone with an impeccable background, preferably a war hero. I decided I had nothing to lose...
They will speak at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, on March 31; Olivet-Nazarene College at Kankakee, Illinois, on April 2; Bradley University, at Peoria, Illinois, on April 3; and Illinois College, of Jacksonville, Illinois, on April...
...brief period in the '20s, when some of his novels became bestsellers in the U.S., he sank more & more into the twilight of Parisian cocktail parties and U.S. college lecture platforms ("an old man mad about writing," he once described himself). As a lecturer at Michigan's Olivet College in the '30s, he reminded one student of Tristram Shandy's garrulous Uncle Toby-a "vast, benevolent and harmless Uncle Toby, leaning on his stick . . . and wheezing out his stories of Henry James as Toby might have spoken of Marlborough. His books seemed [to us] like medals...