Word: pelikan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This year, honorary degrees will be awarded to: Samuel H. Beer, Robert A. Dahl, Gertrude B. Elion, Seamus J. Heaney, John H. Johnson, Jaroslav Pelikan, Mary Robinson, Henry Rosovsky and Jean-Pierre Serre...
...Jaroslav Pelikan...
Another senior Yale professor, Pelikan hasstudied Christianity and the history of theChristian Church for more than half a century...
...Pelikan is a member of President Clinton'sCommittee on the Arts and Humanities and wasappointed Jefferson Lecturer by the NationalEndowment for the Humanities...
...Mary would be a teenage-girl-gang leader" today. If this seems a bit all embracing (since the hunters, torturers and murderers no doubt have their own Marys), that too is typical. Mary, Cunneen writes, transcends cultural and religious bounds and speaks to a perennial human need." Or, as Pelikan, over lunch at Yale, puts it, "Everyone has a mother...