Word: revs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CRIMSON, however, had a different view. Its editorial page immediately replied, "The letter in Wednesday's Advertiser on the "morality' of Oedipus is one of the most childish productions we have ever read." Rev. Edward E. Hale also felt the same way and preached in the South Congregational Church that Oedipus was perfectly compatible with Christianity. Even the Lampoon thought the play worthy of attention, but could think of nothing better to do than lampoon...
...Bryant-troubled. But they found other things to talk about than the problem that plagued Bryant. Most of the vocal few were vocal on the side of the lily-white banner of segregation; Citizens' Council rallies could usually count on some Protestant clergyman to bless their gatherings. The Rev. Earl Anderson, for instance, 63-year-old pastor of Dallas' Munger Place Baptist Church, insisted that: "Now is the time for Citizens' Councils to put pressure on your preacher." And he propounded eight "reasons why it is not Christian" to invite Negroes into white churches: !) Negroes have their...
Back last week from a short sojourn in the South was the Rev. Trevor Huddleston, Anglican priest of the Community of the Resurrection who has become a symbol and rallying point of resistance to apartheid in South Africa, where he has been stationed for twelve years. In Africa, whence his superiors have recently recalled him to England, white supremacists viewed him with alarm as a kamrboetie (roughly, nigger-lover) and predicted he would not be allowed to visit the U.S. Southern states, let alone be permitted to speak there. But Father Huddleston was able to travel and to talk with...
...University of Chicago announced appointment of the Rev. Granger Westberg to a new post: professor of religion and health. Lutheran Westberg, 42, chaplain for the past three years at the university's clinics and before that at Chicago's Augustana Hospital, will serve on both the medical and theological faculties, putting into practice his conviction that patients' physical, mental and spiritual health are all of a piece, and that medicos and ministers should work together...
...Hotel one night last week, a stocky, wavy-haired Dominican priest rose from his seat at the head table. As 800 guests burst out cheering, he made his way to the speaker's stand to receive the highest honor Catholic University alumni can pay. At 69, the Very Rev. Ignatius Smith, dean of C.U.'s School of Philosophy, became the ninth recipient of the Cardinal Gibbons medal, "for distinguished and meritorious service to the United States of America, the Catholic Church or the Catholic University of America." Though better-known men have won the medal before...