Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Midst laurels stood: the Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, 57, given the John F. Kennedy Award of the Catholic Interracial Council of Chicago, thus becoming the first head of the Presbyterian Church ever honored by a Catholic group; Fisk University President Stephen Wright, 53, elected a board director of the Association of American Colleges, the first Negro ever to achieve such a post; Swiss Sculptor-Painter Alberto Giacometti, 62, named for the $10,000 Guggenheim International Award, the U.S.'s richest art prize; Actress Patricia Neal, 38, Actor Albert Finney, 27, and Director Tony Richardson, 35, presented with...
...Many whites also began to participate, particularly the white clergy, which cast off its lethargy as ministers, priests and rabbis tucked the Scriptures under their arms and marched to jails with Negroes whom they had never seen before. The Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, executive head of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., declared: "Some time or other, we are all going to have to stand and be on the receiving end of a fire hose." Blake thereupon joined two dozen other clergymen in a protest march-and was arrested...
...consecrated all art to God's service-a precedent that the Rev. William Bell Glenesk thinks has a lot of validity today. In the manner of an ecclesiastical impresario, he incorporates everything from jazz bands to barefoot modern dancers in his freewheeling, experimental services at the Spencer Memorial Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn Heights...
...Princeton's college-boy lingo, Bill Bradley, 20, is known as a "straight arrow"-meaning, says a classmate, that "he is just what his parents think he is." He does not drink or smoke or chew. He studies seven hours a day for a B average, goes to Presbyterian church on Sunday and polishes off by teaching Sunday school. That would be enough to set him apart on most campuses, but there is more: he is the first All-America basketball player in Princeton's history, and quite possibly the best college player in the game...
...contrast to the Congregationalists, Presbyterian, and Episcopalians, Jewish students in the college have access to a distinct organization. Separate Hillel societies exist at both Harvard and Radcliffe; executive committees meet weekly to establish a program; and there are representatives in all the Houses and Halls...