Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston-born product of Boston College High School, where Jesuits douse the lads in Greek and Latin, McDonough at first aimed for M.I.T. and physical chemistry. Instead, the classics lured him to Boston College, where he was hooked on Greek poetry by the Rev. Carl J. Thayer, S.J., an inspired teacher whose students habitually sweep national Greek sight-reading contests. On top of that, McDonough worked one summer in a Boston insurance company office, where he discovered the talents of computers...
...REV. GEORGE W. FORELL, professor of theology at Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary: "I certainly object to the notion of killing people to save your own life. Even if you shoot people to save your family when your family's own survival is questionable, that is the use of a certainly evil means to attain an uncertain end; it assumes you know the end. The Christian counsel here is that one tries to do what is least evil and asks forgiveness...
...REV. HUGH SAUSSY of Holy Innocents Episcopal Church in Atlanta: "If someone wanted to use the shelter, then you yourself should get out and let him use it. That's not what would happen, but that's the strict Christian application...
Saying Mass at a side altar of Hyannis' St. Francis Xavier Church, the Rev. John F. Keough, a visiting priest from Ireland's County Cork, found himself without an altar boy. Leaving his wife and seven children in their pew, an overage volunteer quickly moved in to fill the gap. Not until the congregation had departed did Father Keough learn that his self-appointed assistant had been U.S. Attorney General (and ex-acolyte) Robert F. Kennedy...
...founders of little Mars Hill were in trouble as soon as they laid the last handmade brick on the first building in 1856. They owed the contractors $1,100; the treasury was empty. While they frantically passed the hat, the builders slapped a judgment on the Rev. J. W. Anderson, future secretary of the college. The Rev. Mr. Anderson owned a Negro named Joe -a strapping young man easily worth $1,100 on the slave market in nearby Asheville. Some say that Joe himself volunteered to be a human surety. The builders took him to jail for safekeeping. Four days...