Word: vanderbilt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Campbell-Walter); Rosita Winston, one of the world's best-dressed women and a part Cherokee Indian; Donna Marella Agnelli of Turin, whose husband's grandfather founded the Fiat automobile company; Rosie Warburton Gaynor Chisholm, whose grandparents were Old Guard Philadelphians, and whose mother married William K. Vanderbilt...
...wonder how many of these businessmen, still clutching bygone myths to their restless bosoms, could have created and built the industrial empires they now manage. Imagine a Vanderbilt or a Morgan whining and sniveling in public about how hard it is to succeed when you have lost confidence in your President. Pirates and buccaneers they may have been, but they had guts and imagination, which are just memories to the crybabies who occupy today's executive suites. Maybe Caroline Kennedy will head up a national drive to get American kids to send their discarded security blankets to our quivering...
...John W. Ellis, has been a boys' school, and is being razed to become part of the campus of a girls' college. Ochre Court, built in 1888-91 by Ogden Goelet, is a Roman Catholic women's college. The Breakers, built by Cornelius Vanderbilt and Belcourt, the house of Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, are tourist attractions; The Breakers draws some 50,000 curious trippers a year at $1.75 a head...
...result of a typical power-mower accident, a two-year-old girl seemed, on admission to Vanderbilt University Hospital, to have poliomyelitis. She was feverish and had a stiff neck; her left eye and right side were partly paralyzed. But the doctors were puzzled by a bruise and swelling on the top of her head. Eventually, her parents recalled that six days earlier, something had hit her on the head while she was standing near a power mower. X rays showed that a piece of metal, more than an inch long, had penetrated the skull and a big abscess...
Plenty of Critics. Earth's Dogmatics, says Langdon Gilkey of Vanderbilt University's divinity school, "is the most impressive and most complete statement of the Christian faith in this century." Other theologians complain that if anyone tried to read all that Barth says about the Word of God he would have no time to read the Word of God itself. Barth's interpretation of that Word has plenty of critics. Both Niebuhr and Tillich think that he is too critical of the cultural disciplines, such as philosophy and anthropology, which attempt to give man an insight into...