Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Severed Ties. Journalist Robert Root has said that a new type of missionary will have to be developed for China (TIME, Nov. 15). The Rev. Rowland M. Cross, secretary of the Foreign Missions Conference China committee, said last week: "There will certainly be a trend in the direction of specialization. Those who know a trade will be at a great advantage. The boards are even considering the desirability of using celibate missionaries...
...Dear Bertie" seems to have boggled and backtracked. He sent Lawrence an outline of his democratic ideas for lectures-and got it back scrawled with screams ("no! no! no! no! no!"; "Do go to the root"). In Letter 15 Lawrence was more explicit. "You simply don't speak the truth . . . you are really the super-war-spirit . . . you want to jab and strike, like the soldier with the bayonet . . . You are simply full of repressed desires . . . As a woman said to me, who had been to one of your meetings: 'It seemed so strange, with his face looking...
Three Drinks & a Dream. At the root of Europe's misconceptions about the U.S. is what Visson calls the "Athenian complex." Europeans, he thinks, regard the U.S. somewhat as the Greeks regarded the rise of muscular, uncultured Rome. The Greeks told themselves (as Europeans do today) that these new barbarians across the water might have more money-but they would never be really civilized. European intellectuals have always claimed that those American nouveaux riches are uncouth. They have now made the damning discovery that Americans are also unhappy. America in their eyes is the playgirl of the Western world...
Journalist Root thinks there will still be room for a new (or a very old) kind of mission and missionary. There will no longer be "elaborately housed institutions." "The primitive 'rough it' work of the 1st Century disciples comes to mind. The Friends' Ambulance Unit, though it has no evangelization work, is active in Communist China and suggests a pattern. It would be a labor of tents and poor food and maybe overalls...
Died. Elizabeth Root Luce, 77, widow of the late Dr. Henry Winters Luce, prominent missionary educator in China (1897-1926), and mother of Henry R. Luce, editor-in-chief of TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE; after a long illness; in Haverford...