Word: rev
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dance version of Winesburg, Saddler focused on four of the book's most luridly contorted figures: Elizabeth Willard. whose uncontrollable love for her son feeds "the feeble blaze of life that remained in her;" the Peeping-Tom minister, the Rev. Curtis Hartman, who sees God in a naked woman; a love-starved spinster named Alice Hindman; and the local doxy, one Louise Trunnion. As Anderson had done, Choreographer Saddler used the inflamed observations of George Willard, Elizabeth's son and a reporter for the Winesburg Eagle, as the thread to stitch the incidents together...
...REV.) W. J. MITCHELL St. Lucy Church Chicago
Visiting with President Eisenhower for 45 minutes one day last week were four top U.S. Negro leaders: the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. of Montgomery, Ala.; N.A.A.C.P. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins, A. (for Asa) Philip Randolph, founding (1925) boss of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and Lester B. Granger, executive secretary for the National Urban League. The four were mindful of the President's recent exhortation to Negro publishers that Negroes be "patient" in their quest for full civil rights, and Wilkins, for one, had criticized Ike roundly. As a result, both the Negro leaders and the President...
...announce that he was "shocked and horrified" at this "needless folly." (He remains a Communist, apparently disturbed only by inept tactics.) In Scotland Mrs. Helen Wolff, sister of top British Communist John Gollan, quit the party in disgust. And to the surprise of one and all, the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, "Red Dean" of Canterbury, opened his eyes long enough to announce that "the Dean regrets the executions...
...reading, as thoughtful and searching an analysis of its educational system as it is likely to get. Source: the fourth report of the Special Studies Project of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.* The authors (among them: John W. Gardner, Carnegie Corporation of New York president; the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame; Sociologist David Riesman) are sharply critical of defects in U.S. education, and aware that the nation's future depends largely on whether these defects are mended...