Word: pews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Church. In 1775 George Washington, before taking command of the nation's first army, prayed in his white pew in Christ Church, Alexandria, Va. Before his decision to take command of the Virginia forces, Robert E. Lee prayed there in 1861. In Alexandria, at daybreak Thursday, the balding, vigorous, 34-year-old rector, the Rev. Edward Randolph Welles, summoned eight young men of the parish, gave them a Secret-Service-combed list of 250 parishioners' names, admission cards...
...Barth is a theologian's theologian. Known to few men in the pew, he nevertheless profoundly affects them at third hand-for the theologians whom he influences influence the preachers of the Christian world. Nazis ousted him from his chair at Bonn in 1935 for his resistance to Hitler, and now he teaches in his native Basle. Last week the first copy of his latest book, A Letter to Great Britain from Switzerland, was Clippered to TIME. Its influence will be enormous-and more immediate than usual. Wrote Dr. Barth...
...interlards these with sizzling passages like this one from The Stars Look Down: "Linked together, they moved to the foremost pew, cushioned and wide as any bed . . . her lips were moist with desire. The rain drummed upon the roof and the darkness of the church reddened and enclosed them. When it came, her cry of physical exaltation rose before the altar...
...Nature and Destiny of Man he describes as "the first full dress exposition of my philosophy." The man in the pew is not likely to read it, but he will hear about it from the pulpit for years to come. Whether he will be moved by what he hears is another question, for Dr. Niebuhr belligerently repudiates liberalism's "pathetic eagerness" to justify itself to the modern mind. He foresees the unpopularity of his dogma, concedes that little short of world catastrophe can make Babbitt think of himself as a sinner or worry about the problem...
Married. Genevieve Garner, 18, only granddaughter of ex-Vice President John Nance Garner, onetime black-eyed queen of Virginia's Apple Blossom Festival; and John James Currie Jr., Panhandle ranching scion; as Cactus Jack, hampered slightly by recent dental alterations, beamed from the family pew; in Amarillo...