Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fall of 1954, when Buttrick's appointment was announced, the post of University preacher had been vacant for one and a half years. Despite speculation during the previous spring that the new head of memorial Church would have no teaching duties, Buttrick also became an active professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
Shortly before Buttrick came to Cambridge, President Pusey asked a number of distinguished guest preachers for the Spring term to cancel their Sunday visits to memorial Church, so that Buttrick (called by Life magazine one of the nation's "ten greatest preachers") could deliver most of the sermons, and give the Services "Continuity...
Buttrick, now 67, will serve as Fosdick Professor during the Fall of 1960-61, and will lecture at universities and seminaries in the spring. He is general editor of a four-volume Bible dictionary and of the 12-volume Interpreters' Bible...
...built a final monument to his own idiosyncratic genius. It could be criticized and quipped about, but it could not be ignored. Just before he died, Wright predicted it could survive even an atomic bomb: "It would just bounce up and down in the blast, like a mighty spring...
When the church softened its policy to permit "Youth Dedication" to the state, participation in these strictly secular ersatz confirmations hit an 80%-go% high last spring, and some East German congregations celebrated no Christian confirmations at all. Fewer and fewer children are signing up for the voluntary school program of religious education. Economic discrimination against Christians has not abated, and Red bureaucrats systematically hinder efforts to build new churches and repair old ones. In Saxony alone, 50 churches were condemned as unsafe since the war while the state withheld permission for repairs...