Word: rose
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shrinking steadily. Fraternity membership has declined at the University of Illinois, despite an increase of 4,000 more undergraduate men in the past ten years. Similarly, at the University of California's Berkeley campus, Greek societies lost 20% of their members in five years, while undergraduate enrollment rose 13%. On some campuses, fraternities are numerically as strong as ever, but everywhere students take Greek membership much less seriously. "For the first time a student can feel he neither should-nor should not-belong to a fraternity," says Ohio State's Dean John Bonner...
...Pollster Lou Harris last year, 97% of the American people say they believe in God. Although clergymen agree that the postwar religious revival is over, a big majority of believers continue to display their faith by joining churches. In 1964, reports the National Council of Churches, denominational allegiance rose about 2%, compared with a population gain of less than 1.5%. More than 120 million Americans now claim a religious affiliation; and a recent Gallup survey indicated that 44% of them report that they attend church services weekly...
...discernment situation could be fall ing in love, suffering cancer, reading a book. But it need not be a private experience. The Rev. Stephen Rose, editor of Chicago's Renewal magazine, argues that "whenever the prophetic word breaks in, either as judgment or as premise, that's when the historical God acts." One such situation, he suggests, was Watts?an outburst of violence that served to chide men for lack of brotherhood. Harvard's Harvey Cox sees God's hand in history, but in a different way. The one area where empirical man is open to transcendence, he argues...
Make no mistake: if He rose at all it was as His body; if the cells' dissolution did not reverse, the molecules reknit, the amino acids rekindle, the Church will fall...
...ordinarily considered vital to national defense. Yet hardly any U.S. industry has come under greater pressure from the demands of the Viet Nam war than textiles. Contracts for everything from uniforms to tents and the canvas used in combat boots totaled $200 million in the last quarter of 1965, rose to $260 million in the first quarter of this year, and are expected to go up to $340 million in the second quarter. Since December, the Defense Department has been issuing priority orders for cotton fatigues and wool uniforms, thereby diverting by decree the manufacture of equivalent items away from...