Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though Mayor Locher (rhymes with poker) announced last year that he saw "no impending furor" in his city, a U.S. Civil Rights Commission investigation there last April convinced at least one commissioner, the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, president of the University of Notre Dame, that conditions in Hough were "the worst I have seen." After the commission urged city officials to show "a more positive attitude" toward Cleveland's Negroes, Mayor Locher's response was to appoint a committee to report on the commission's report...
...Roman Catholics, who want closer ties with the Catholic-dominated Republic of Ireland. Last week Prime Minister Terence O'Neill's government took its first legal action against the man who has stirred up much of the recent trouble. He is big, garrulous Rev. Ian Paisley, 40, leader of Northern Ireland's Free Presbyterian Church...
...survey of U.S. parochial schools called The Education of Catholic Americans (Aldine; $8.95). Financed by a $250,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation, the four-year study was conducted by the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center and edited by two of its sociologists: the Rev. Andrew M. Greeley, a Catholic priest, and Peter H. Rossi, a self-styled "devout agnostic...
...first new hymnal for Methodists since 1935, the revision was ordered by the church's General Conference in 1960. To find out what worshipers wanted, the editors, headed by the Rev. Carlton Young of Dallas, polled 12,800 ministers and laymen, fed their answers into a computer. The result is a songbook that neatly balances tradition and innovation; among the 539 entries are 122 new texts, 119 new tunes...
...John and Charles Wesley, 20 more than the 1935 version contained. Also included is a nostalgic fundamentalist favorite that was left out of the previous hymnal because it did not suit the musical palate of the time: The Old Rugged Cross. All in all, proudly sums up the Rev. Nolan B. Harmon, retired Bishop of Western North Carolina and one of the supervising editors, "it's the greatest hymnal we've ever...