Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flurry of phone calls from hormone-hunting wives flooded New York's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center last year, when word got out that of 21 women treated there, 15 became pregnant. The seven who completed their pregnancies bore three single babies, three sets of twins and one set of quads (TIME...
...their children into the best of the city's private nursery schools (cost: $550 a year and up). Chapin, for example, likes graduates of nursery schools run by the Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest (irreverent parents dub it "the celestial snooze") and by the Brick Presbyterian Church. Prudent parents apply to at least three nursery schools, since they cannot be sure that they or their child will pass the tough admission interviews. One worried couple hired a tutor to teach their boy how to cope with coloring books...
...support a moral judgment are nearly all on the public record, and foreign policy, where so much essential background for decision is top secret. "There are times when we must trust our leaders to make the right moral decisions," says the Rev. Edward L. R. Elson of the National Presbyterian Church in Washington, "since not all the alternatives can be placed in church channels or the public forum...
...smoking and drinking. Protestantism thus may be missing the social implications in the message of Christ, who came, says Thomas J. Liggett, head of the Evangelical Seminary of Puerto Rico, "to radically change the circumstances of men." In the revolutionary climate of Latin America, warns Rafael Cepeda, a Presbyterian minister from Cuba, "the churches are dancing the minuet while the world is dancing to jazz...
...little more than a huge boy scout made good. Tall, tanned, fit, graceful, handsome, just shy enough, pleasant, polite, friendly, modest, sincere--just think of any epithet related to "clean-cut," and it probably applies to the colonel. A country lad who went to Muskingham College, a United Presbyterian Church school in his home town of New Concord, Ohio, married the girl a quarter of a mile down the road, joined the Marine Corps in 1941 and stayed for 18 years, Glenn seems about as complicated as a cornflake. Susan Sontag would adore...