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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three Levels. The barn's design displays a canny combination of the practical and the monumental. Constructed of wood and stone within a 270-ft. circumference, it ranged cows and horses facing into a central core. At harvest time, wagons bearing fresh loads from the fields could enter by a separate driveway that led to the level above the stalls, then drive around the circle, distributing feed in the hayloft. A manure pit beneath the stable level permitted cow dung to fall through trapdoors and be easily carted away...
...search for "relevance" often takes the form of innovation within accepted ecclesiastical norms. When Shannon Meagher and Henry A. Foley planned their Roman Catholic wedding in Milwaukee, they altered the traditional ceremony to give it an interracial, ecumenical character "for our friends who were black, white, Jew, Catholic, Protestant, poor, middle class and rich...
Last week blacks tried for greater in fluence within the United Church of Christ at its biennial assembly in Boston, promoting a Negro pastor for the presidency of the 2,000,000-member denomination and pressing for fuller representation on all committees. In Detroit, representatives of the National Black Economic Development Council met with the executive council of the Episcopal diocese of Michigan to present their demands for reparations for "centuries of oppression." In the long run, though, one of the most significant attempts to give spiritual sanction to the Black Power movement may have occurred last month in Atlanta...
...Christians can only lead to a narrowly parochial vision at a time when the need is for wider understanding. As Dr. Rosemary Ruether of Howard University's School of Religion recently wrote in America, an authentic black theology "would understand the genus 'man' as the universal within which it places its own celebration of black humanity. In that form it would be a catholic theology, a theology with universal validity, and not a form of racism...
...King, 86, cartoonist, creator of the classic comic strip Gasoline Alley; of a heart attack; in Winter Park, Fla. In 1918, King invented Walt Wallet and his auto-buff cronies (later including Skeezix, Phyllis Blossom and many others) as part of a page of drawings for the Chicago Tribune; within a year Gasoline Alley was popular enough to run as a separate feature, recording the trials and triumphs of the Wallet family in what was once called "a quiet, faithful, tender picture of suburban America...