Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Benign Paternalism. Long ago the seeds were planted. Once, Hawaii was an island paradise of flowers and trees, of tawny Polynesian women and warrior chiefs, jungle fastnesses and snow-capped mountains. In 1778 Captain Cook discovered the islands, and was followed by lusty traders and, in the 18203, by the...
Prelate Byrne's threatened denial of the sacraments of communion and confession to a Miss Universe contestant and her Catholic mother [July 20] is just another very good reason for being an American Protestant.
These two examples suggest that there was probably as much hysteria among McCarthy's foes as among his followers. In a remarkably well-balanced and even-tempered book. Author Rovere (for the past eleven years Washington correspondent for The New Yorker) notes that "McCarthyism was a bipartisan doctrine." He...
Washington's Albert Dean Rosellini, 49, son of an immigrant Italian grocer, was a freewheeling Seattle criminal lawyer and 18-year state senator, won his four-year term in 1956. His overoptimism on tax estimates, plus the recession, ran up a $48 million deficit in his first biennium, which...
Presbyterian Delattre found "tremendous vitality" in certain San Francisco coffee houses and taverns, where "the conversations were creative and there was a kind of acceptance that made freedom possible," and began to wonder if the church should not set up some taverns and coffee houses of its own. Then he...