Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...help of assorted sympathetic mediums. The most recent-and most dramatic-encounter took place last month in Toronto, where Pike participated in a televised séance with the Rev. Arthur A. Ford of Philadelphia, a Disciples of Christ minister and a professional medium who claims that a "spirit control" named "Fletcher" speaks through his vocal cords...
...agenda topics vary considerably in imagination and scope. Least impressive is the one on seminaries-a two-page memo that offers no specific proposals for the improvement of priestly training. The document on canon law, however, recommends that reformation of the church's code he undertaken in a spirit of charity rather than conformity to regulation, and that the duties of ecclesiastical superiors as well as their subjects be spelled out, since "the rights of every member of the faithful must be recognized and safeguarded." The document on mixed marriages raises the possibility that bishops may be given...
...Griswold's critique proved to be his valedictory as well. At week's end, President Johnson announced his appointment as the next U.S. Solicitor General. As the nation's top trial lawyer, succeeding Thurgood Marshall, Griswold will shortly be exercising both his dialectical skill and his spirit...
...Close It Down." Students at Negro colleges are bitterly resentful of their own lack of campus freedom. Dillard students recently boycotted Sunday vesper services simply because they were compulsory. At Washington's Howard University, even though retiring President James M. Nabrit Jr., 67, praised "the spirit of revolt" at a convocation, more than 100 students walked out to protest his dismissal of 23 faculty and student activists this summer. The militant students cheered Sociology Professor Nathan Hare's declaration that "you got to close this place down...
...Harvard Law School, through its faculty activity and its teaching, could shift its concern even slightly from the generally too narrow objectives of much traditional legal scholarship, we might increase our contribution. Even in our field it may be true that 'the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life...