Word: paso
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When I knocked at the door," recalls Carlos Rivera, 36, who supervises elementary Spanish in the El Paso public schools, "I repeated several times, 'Pase usted,' but I did not enter." The door led to a first-grade classroom filled with tots, few of whom spoke Spanish. They had been told only that their expected visitor "understands English, but does not speak it." The children soon grasped the meaning of Rivera's phrase ("Enter"), and repeated the invitation to come in. Rivera smiled and walked in with a greeting: "?Buenos dias...
Since that September morning in 1951, when El Paso began its experiment in teaching English-speaking first-graders Spanish, Carlos Rivera has been a busy man. For years El Paso's two English-language newspapers, the Times and the Herald-Post, had advocated the project. When Dr. Mortimer Brown took over as school superintendent, the idea got a trial. "The minute I had unfolded the plan to Rivera," says Dr. Brown, "I knew he was my man. In his excitement he began pounding the table...
...William Wright, 48, rector of St. Clement's Protestant Episcopal Church in El Paso, lives in an area where Christian belief is strong and fundamental. Wright himself prefers a more intellectual approach toward religion, and says so. Recently, in a speech to the El Paso Bar Association, he declared that reason is as good a guide to religion as faith is. He denounced fundamentalist camp meetings, popular in West Texas, as "emotional whingdings that provide a vacation from thinking." Added Episcopalian Wright, attacking belief in Biblical accounts such as that of Jonah and the whale: "Who does believe those...
...First Church of the Nazarene congregation: "We believe all that he makes fun of." Pastor David Calhoun of Immanuel Baptist Church warningly quoted St. Paul (I. Timothy 4:1): "Some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits." Wrote an angry letter writer to the El Paso Times, in a flood of protest mail: "I may not have as many college . . . degrees to my name as [Wright], but I have one degree, a God-conferred degree of B.A. (Born Again), which man did not give...
This week, while El Paso's fundamentalists still fumed, the Most Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, announced Pastor Wright's appointment as director of the home department of the church's National Council. Wright's new job: developing Episcopal missions...