Word: wesley
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Some deeply resent that the decision was couched in the language of religion at all. "Whether or not it was explicitly stated between the two men," says the Rev. L. Harold DeWolf, retired dean of Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C., "this was a political payoff. Raking in so much of this religious stuff?God and all that?makes it even worse than it was." Others concede the sincerity of the President's spiritual motives but challenge the wisdom of the act. "Clearly compassion is something we need more of in public life and the administration of criminal justice," declares...
...thoughtful supporter of the fellowship wonders whether it is too neutral on political questions. "Doug never raises issues," observes Wesley Michaelson, Hatfield's legislative assistant. "The latent assumption is that the solution to political problems is to get people converted and committed to each other. [But] overseas some of the fellowship people are the same generals who carry out martial law." Still, Michaelson concedes that Coe's personal, uncritical ministry has made him "the real chaplain of the House and Senate." It has also forged ties of concern. When an assailant shot Mississippi's Senator John Stennis...
...months since former White House Counsel John Wesley Dean III testified before the Senate Watergate committee, there have been drastic changes in his lifestyle, philosophy and future ambitions. Last week at his new hillside home in Los Angeles in a remarkably candid interview-the first he has granted in more than a year-Dean discussed the turbulence of his past and the hoped-for serenity of his future with TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey...
Screenplay by RICHARD WESLEY...
...Wesley G. Campbell, director of the institution, declined to comment on Lipset's reported appointment...