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...never happened to see a reverend with a madras tie before Bill Coffin. But then, most things about Yale's galvanic chaplain don't quite match the stereotyped trappings of the traditional man of the cloth...
...method stands in greater relief in this fragment than in his other books, largely because so much of the conventional history is familiar to us. Standard histories rarely discuss--rarely mention--the events and personalities Miller so vividly presents to us: the Great Awakening of 1857-58, the Reverend Charles Grandison Finney's revivals, the codifying patriotism of David Dudley Field, the fierce Irish eloquence of William Sampson, or any of a host of others...
...Reverend Maude is a Church of England vicar. Tuberculous and gently tormented, he is a man with no gift for life in his own century, at ease only in his dreams of Anglo-Saxon times. In order to recuperate from his malaise, he leaves his London parish for a quiet East Suffolk village. There he lives with his brother, a dentist, who also dislikes everything modern; his brother's wife, a disappointed woman who digs in her garden as if she had lost something there; their son Alwyn, amoral, educated, cheerfully modern; and Alwyn's fiancee Jenny...
Death can give meaning to life by showing what one is willing to die for, the Reverend Dr. Langdon Gilkey '40 explained at a Memorial Service yesterday in honor of the late President John F. Kennedy '40. The service was held in Memorial Church as part of the 25th reunion of the Class...
Besides the Reverend Gilkey, participants in the service included the Reverend Bayard S. Clark '40 of the Urban Training Center in Chicago, Illinois, the Reverend Avery Dulles '40 from Woodstock, Maryland, and the Reverend John F. Hayward '40, professor of Theology at Meadville Theological School in Chicago...