Word: robinsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Birmingham police department's six-wheeled riot tank thumped onto the scene and cops began firing shotguns over the heads of the crowd while Negroes pelted them with rocks. Later, Negro youths began stoning passing white cars. The police ordered them to stop. One boy, Johnny Robinson, 16, ran, and a cop killed him with a blast of buckshot. That made five dead and 17 injured in the bomb blast...
...meaningful faith. A current debate among Anglicans concerns the merits of the radical interpretations of Christian doctrine proposed by theologians known as "the Cambridge group" -principally Alec Vidler, Harry Williams and Hugh Montefiore. One of England's bestsellers of the year (280,000 copies) is Bishop John Robinson's Honest to God, which attacks the "religiousness" of Christianity and rejects the idea of God as a transcendent Being somewhere "out there" in space. Rectors who promise a sermon on Honest to God can be almost certain that they will have a standing-room-only congregation...
...following poems won the annual poetry contest sponsored by the Summer School. The winners were selected from 60 entrants who submitted more than 300 poems. Judges this year were Walter Clark, Denis Donoghue, and James K. Robinson...
Walter Clark, Dean of students of the Summer School; Denis Donoghue, visiting lecturer in English Literature; and James K. Robinson, visiting professor of English judged the entries...
Then one of Stockwood's aides, the Rt. Rev. John Robinson, Bishop of Woolwich, stirred up a row with his book Honest to God, arguing that Christianity needs a new idea of God. And another Southwark clergyman, the Rev. John Pearce-Higgins, recently took arms against some of the 39 Articles-the declaration of Anglican faith. He called the 400-year-old Articles "in the nature of a theological fossil" and announced that he assented to them under protest...