Word: theo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chaplains had all been in war heaters and their battlefront experiences lad convinced them that the Church needs renewed warnings: | Organized religion has allowed church members to remain religious illiterates. The trouble probably lies in an indirectivay of teaching with high-sounding theo-ogical terms instead of plain talk, which he chaplains found more effective. Hence-orth, civilian clergymen will have to be )etter trained in modern educational methods...
...grammar, spelling, punctuation. (Result of this finickiness is a shining absence in the Free Press of the bamboo English that creeps into most Far Eastern English-language papers.) Moreover, he intends to run his paper as long as he lives and will it to his second-in-command, F. Theo. Rogers, and to his staff. He doesn't think that either war with Japan or Philippines independence in 1946 will interfere with that plan...
...Theo and Tom West get off to a glowing start. Tom, an architect, is absorbed in a low-cost housing project. Theo bears two children rather sooner than she is spiritually adequate to the job. Their friends are solid-seeming, yet Theo finds infidelities among them, and at length, bored, crib-ridden, anesthetic towards her husband and afraid of losing her youth, she has an affair herself. When Tom, a simple, active man, finds out, it drives him half out of his wits, her into penitence, both into a cruel psychic deadlock whose detailing is the best thing...
...Other characters greet the reader with "We're doing the Saturday Review puzzle." All the men smoke pipes, which they rub against their cheeks or tap on their knees while they talk. Often they talk less like human beings than like editorials in a liberal weekly. Says Theo's lover: "We sit here in America, and across the ocean we see death and denial enmeshing a great people. For there's no use now imagining that Hitler is a temporary aberration. How long can it last...
...institution has never seemed both ered by Harry Ward's bizarre (for a churchman) political views: Union Theo logical Seminary, headed by rich, well born, liberal Henry Sloane Coffin (Skull & Bones, Yale '97). At Union, Red Harry Ward may presumably go on teaching Christian Ethics so long as he is of reason ably sound mind and body...