Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know," he explained, "we don't read poets like Whittier and Longfellow any more. We read only good ones, like Whitman...
...haven't read The Scarlet Letter...
...Well-read, friendly Arthur Lichtenberger graduated from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio and went on to the Episcopal Theological Seminary, Cambridge, Mass., for a degree of bachelor of sacred theology. After postgraduate work at Manhattan's General Theological Seminary, he was ordained in China in 1926, began his ministry as missionary professor of New Testament at St. Paul's Divinity School in Wuchang. In 1928 he returned to the U.S. to be rector of Grace Church in Cincinnati, Ohio for five years, then rector of St. Paul's Church in Brookline, Mass, for eight years...
...bestseller of 21 years ago. Today, suave, slight Dr. Lin. 63, is an orphan no longer. Last Sunday he sat in the congregation of his new church-Manhattan's Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church-and listened attentively to the sermon of its Scottish-born pastor, the Rev. David Read. Afterward, puffing a pipe in the sun-filled living room of his modern apartment on Manhattan's East Side, the onetime pagan explained his new position...
Even before the President's message was read, two Democrats occupying key positions in the Senate and House housing subcommittees, Senator John Sparkman and Congressman Albert Rains of Alabama, last week introduced housing bills that would go further than the Administration wants toward stepping up federal aid. The Rains bill, for example, would continue public housing, boost federal subsidies in slum clearance from the Administration's proposed $250 million to $500 million, throw another $500 million into the Federal National Mortgage Association ("Fannie Mae") for mortgage purchasing, and make it easier to buy houses by slashing mortgage down...