Word: biennially
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ever since its biennial convention a year ago, the 2.9 million member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod has been on the brink of a civil war between the supporters of its aggressively orthodox president, Dr. Jacob A.O. Preus, 52, and those of Dr. John Tietjen, 44, the moderate president of the denomination's large, influential Concordia Seminary in St. Louis. The 1971 church convention, acting on its theme "Sent to Reconcile," attempted a kind of Missouri Compromise, supporting Preus in his theological investigation of the St. Louis seminary but leaving the moderates in control of the seminary's governing...
...news from Istanbul fell like a bomb on a gathering in Houston's Rice Hotel last week. There the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America was holding a formal dinner as part of its 21st Biennial Clergy-Laity Congress. Archbishop Iakovos, Primate of North and South America, rose to give a scheduled speech about the Ecumenical Patriarch, then told the delegates in a breaking voice: "Athenagoras is not with us any more. He is with God." The Patriarch's death was especially poignant because the congress was celebrating a "Double Jubilee," Athenagoras' 50th year...
...second biennial Arctic Winter Games got under way this month in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, it became painfully clear that the organization of the event left something to be desired. Take the case of Simon Tookoome, the Northwest Territories' leading ipirautaqturniq (precision whip flicking) virtuoso. Not only did Too-koome have no competition in his specialty, but the games committee was not even certain that another whip maestro had been invited. For his part, Tookoome left his sealskin whip at home in Baker Lake. But resourcefulness, as much as ipirautaqturniq, is the name of the game. Improvising a whip from...
SURVEYS. The survey shows held by some museums are catalysts for new talent. At the 1969 Whitney Painting Annual, 6% of the artists were women. This year the figure rose to 24%. Last year's Corcoran Biennial had no women among 21 artists; the 1971 Young Los Angeles Artists show had three women...
Seventy per cent of the Ed School's chapter of Phi Delta Kappa supported the withdrawal decision after a biennial meeting of the fraternity's national council refused to recognize women as members. Harvard and several other graduate schools have been accepting female members on a local basis despite national council rulings...