Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...F.P.C.'s faculty numbers 61, three-fourths of them Ph.D.s earning an average of $12,549 a year. Under the guidance of Bevan, who became dean, the school developed a liberal-arts curriculum anchored to a four-year core program focusing in successive years on world developments, Western civilization, Asian culture and the Christian heritage. The objective of the core program and its related science, language and elective courses is to form students who can make knowledgeable value judgments within the broad framework of Christian ethics-students who can find answers to the central questions of a liberal-arts...
...dominant characteristic of Polish art has always been its steadfast alliance with Western Europe. This Slavic nation, situated on plainlands, has been invaded from all sides, by Mongols, Cossacks, Tartars, Teutonic Knights and Nazis; yet across the centuries it has remained a stronghold for artistic styles as familiar in Paris and Venice as in Warsaw. In no small part this allegiance comes from Poland's 1,000 years as a Christian nation oriented toward Rome...
...band of Christian brothers united by baptism and faith but no outward ties. Today, he says, "all churches are aware that a unity that cannot be grasped is just as unbiblical as a faith that is kept hidden. It has now also become impossible to believe that the Western-European type of Christendom is the definite and normative form of Christian life and faith. We have learned that no member can pretend to be the entire body...
Masturbation is another act that Simons thinks should be deplored in general but condoned under particular circumstances. He points out that the vast majority of youths in Western societies go through long periods of protracted sexual tension. With the welfare of man as his criterion, Simons suggests that it is psychologically better for them to release this tension by masturbation than to prolong it at the risk of developing a morbid preoccupation with sex. The Catholic church's inflexibility in condemning remarriage after divorce is also not in accord with the modern view of human welfare. All efforts should...
...took a step toward his own retirement. The agency's ruling triumvirate, consisting of Cone, Board Chairman Robert F. Carney, 61, and President Rolland W. Taylor, 59, announced a new management generation that will take over next January. Richard W. Tully, 49, head of Foote, Cone's Western operations, will become board chairman; Chicago Office Chief Charles S. Winston, 47, will be president; and New York-based William E. Chambers Jr., 47, will be operations-committee chairman. Cone himself will turn over his job as chairman of the executive committee to Carney. Though he will not reach...