Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After Dean Jones' announcement that SNCC had been kicked off campus, the Rev. Kirkpatrick and Millard Lowe, student co-chairman of the Friends of SNCC, along with Lee Otis Johnson, a former T.S.U. student, and Franklin Alexander, the DuBois Club chairman from Chicago, organized a protest rally. When Jones answered the SNCC group's appeal with a letter saying that he could not reconsider his decision, Kirkpatrick called for a boycott of the school. Johnson, who was indefinitely suspended by Dean Jones in December for making boisterous speeches in the university's coffee shop, led a march through the halls...
Strength of Reality. Whatever lies beyond, the new eschatology may make it harder for some people to face death. Says the Rev. Kevin Wall, prior of the Dominican House of Studies in Berkeley, Calif.: "Those who hold myth-convictions are better prepared to face death with equanimity. It is more difficult for the rationalist to contemplate death." German Protestant Theologian Dorothee Solle believes that "emphasis on this world means an intensification of the death experience. The new theology says that life is definite, not indefinite, that our chances are limited...
...honestly and with courage. It frees man to have faith that is not merely an escape from fear." Indeed, such freedom might begin to restore faith in an afterlife, especially one in which the spiritual dimensions are composed of such Christian qualities as justice, brotherhood and charity. Says the Rev. William J. Wolf of Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge, Mass.: "There is greater equanimity in facing death's reality if what you are looking forward to in the next life is an extension of and a deepening of the value you find in this life...
Died. The Very Rev. Francis J. Connell, 79, a dean of Washington's Catholic University of America from 1949 to 1957 and one of the nation's leading interpreters of moral theology, who never hesitated to articulate his often controversial views, be it on the World War II atomic bombing of Japan ("from an ethical standpoint-simply murder"), court-ordered sterilization ("totalitarian, unAmerican, and irreligious"), or smoking (one pack a day is all right, two packs is a sin); of heart disease; in Washington...
...have lost a battle -- a very big battle -- at the state level, but we have not lost the war," the Rev. Edward J. McManus, chairman of a citizens' committee opposed to Brookline-Elm, told an audience of 150 in St. Mary's auditorium last night...