Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...colleges or universities. Since the first panel started at U.C.L.A. in 1942, the movement has spread to a score of campuses, is now a permanent part of the academic scene. Its purpose, says Los Angeles' Adaline ("Gramma") Guenther, who founded the first group, is not so much to- preach as to inspire. "We merely offer something for the audience to think about. We appeal to their conscience. We say in effect, 'This is a good world, but you must make...
Reinhold Niebuhr, eminent Protestant theologian and vice-president of the Union Theological Seminary in New York, will preach before a congregation in Memorial Chapel at 11 a.m. this Sunday. Niebuhr, a leader of the Neo-Orthodox movement in Protestantism, is a member of the University Board of Preachers...
...picture with a message they work so hard on the sermon that they spoil the picture. The Blackboard Jungle could have been a fine movie, but as it stands now it is an uneven one. It has tried just a little too hard both to shock and to preach...
Miller does not always preach what he practices, for such outstanding scholarship-which brought him to Harvard in 1931-is not what he recommends to graduate students. Speaking of theses as "mere Ph.D. union cards," he urges his students to "get the thing over with in a hurry." Yet graduate researchers confess that anyone who tries to study that way under Miller is bound to run into trouble. For easy-talking Miller cannot tolerate haphazard scholarship...
...went to bed at 3:30 on Saturday afternoon to rest up, but his mind churned so with thoughts that, when he began to preach at midnight, he had not slept a wink. About a dozen of his followers were on hand for his opening words: "Men are on earth to find truth and live it out. Truth is power. Without truth man dies." Two loudspeakers atop the building picked up his words from a throat microphone and flung them into the night wind...