Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Great Treasury Raid, Stern...
Serious Theology. It was Asbury's stern belief that "the saddlebags are the best schooling for traveling preachers." Today, says the Rev. Walter Vernon of the church's Board of Education, Methodism is "taking theology more seriously." The Methodists have no Tillich or Barth, but they have seldom before had so many competent and respected thinkers to boast about. Among them: Ecumenist Albert Outler, a Methodist observer at the Vatican Council last year, and radical young (37) Systematic Theologian Schubert Ogden...
...from Bruch. To bring out their beauty, he plays on each a different short piece (Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, Paganini, Handel, Brahms). "The more output and resource an instrument has," Ricci says, "the more difficult it is to handle." He proves that he can handle them all, but like Heifetz and Stern, he favors the Guarnerii, capable of more bite and passion than the more fluid and poetic Strads, which are the first choice of Milstein, Oistrakh, Francescatti and Menuhin...
...helicopter carrying Lyndon and Lady Bird dropped down outside a South Bend retraining school for unemployed workers. Thousands of children swarmed over the field, crushed in on the Johnsons. Secret Service men beckoned frantically for police reinforcements. Lyndon was stern, admonishing his admirers: "I'm not going to shake hands with you unless you behave yourselves." Several injured children were rushed away in ambulances...
...fireman I met aboard the Archer. We had passed Bishop's Rock and were entering the Channel, when another US Line ship came by, and I was told to dip our flag in the customary salute. When I came forward again I passed him, and he pointed over the stern to that silk flapping thing, saying, "anywhere this flag flies is no place for the black man." He wasn't personally bitter, only very disappointed and very analytic...