Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pulpit Rebel. Davies, who calls himself a "theological radical," is under constant attack by both right & left. Reason: he openly rebels against any political or clerical form which he believes is fundamentally empty. He regards the Apostles' Creed as inadequate. Says he: "The Creed goes: '. . . Born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate. . . .' The comma between those two phrases is the most important part of Christ's life. After all, the life of Christ is something more than a punctuation mark...
...Capitol Hill the echoless chambers of Congress slumbered in the hush of recess. But in the garish ballroom of New Orleans' Hotel Roosevelt last week a rump session of 34 disgruntled Senators and Representatives chorused a rebel yell...
...Rebel" John Lowell, Harvard 1786, son of the "Old Judge." Also a lawyer, he regarded himself as a rebel against the fearful republicanism of Jefferson and Madison, grew orchids under glass at his Roxbury, Mass, estate...
...Francis Cabot Lowell, Harvard 1793, half-brother of "Rebel" John. He went into trade: cotton-cloth manufacturing. Greenslet calls him "the first educated man ... to expend his whole energy in organizing and improving the industry." Lowell, Mass, is named...
...James Russell Lowell, Harvard 1838, son of another half-brother of "Rebel" John, and today the best known of the family. He was nevertheless its "problem child" because he married outside the Brahmin caste and had Abolitionist leanings. Author Greenslet is lukewarm about J.R.L.'s writings: "The truth is that, for all the ten volumes of his Collected Works, [he] never wrote a book. He only put newspaper and magazine contributions, poems, speeches and lectures together...