Word: revs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more letters from students morally opposed to abortion are likely to come in The Rev. Thomas F. Powers, the Catholic chaplain for Harvard, said yesterday he has talked to a lot of students who do not want to participate in the abortion plan but who have not yet gotten around to writing the letter...
High Style. Of the four major translations in recent years, the two British projects, the Jerusalem and the New English Bibles, emphasize high literary style. The New American Bible attempted some simplification but the Good News Bible goes much farther. It shuns what one of its translators, the Rev. Heber Peacock, brands "churchy gobbledygook," as well as wording that might be confusing. In the 23rd Psalm, for example, "I shall not want" becomes "I have everything I need." Traditionalists may find that in the process some of the poetry of the standard versions has been clarified out of existence. Often...
...Cambridge Forum "tends to deal mostly with controversial issues where there are contrasting views," Rev. Herbert Vetter, the moderator, said yesterday. "Tonight's program is a little atypical," he added...
...Still, little was known about nutrition. Food was food, "one universal aliment," a generalized fuel for the body. The first reformers were not dietitians but moralists who seemed to harbor some squeamishness about the sensuous pleasures of eating. Believing that meat made for hot tempers and sexual excess, the Rev. Sylvester Graham urged the eating of raw fruits and vegetables, food not "compounded and complicated by culinary process." Man should eat food the way God grew it, untouched even by salt and pepper, which, Graham claimed, could cause insanity. For that reason he opposed removing the bran from wheat...
Alimentary evangelism had many well-known preachers. In the mid-1800s the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and his sisters Catherine and Harriet sermonized against bread made from bleached flour. "What had been the staff of life for countless ages," said Beecher, "had become a weak crutch." Bad morals went with a bad diet, according to Mrs. Horace Mann, who in 1861 published her cookbook Christianity in the Kitchen. A fruitful wedding of faith, faddism and free enterprise was not long in coming. As early as 1866, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, manager of a Battle Creek sanatorium, was prescribing generous doses...