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Liberal Drift. "People always wonder about people of faith-whether they live it," remarks Niebuhr Biographer June Bingham. "The last 20 years of his life were years of severe pain. He bore them with grace and humor." In those same years a younger generation of Protestant liberals was drifting away from Niebuhr's concept of constantly contending self-interest to revolutionary, third-world romanticism. He had decried "a too-simple social radicalism [that] does not recognize how quickly the poor, the weak, the despised of yesterday may, on gaining a social victory over their detractors, exhibit the same arrogance...
...Bingham Trophy was supposed to be Harvard's "highest athletic honor," but the press conference Monday lacked the decorum and ceremony that one expects of a Harvard tradition. The audience included all of one reporter and two photographers, one of them from the athletic department. Attendance was so bad they ended up thanking me four times for coming. Even the spaghetti lunch seemed well below the roast beef banquet standard...
...readers somewhat. But Congress remained suspicious. McGovern and 20 other Senators introduced a Viet Nam Disengagement Act, designed, like a bill defeated last summer, to set a specific date (the end of this year) for the total withdrawal of U.S. forces. In the House, New York's Jonathan Bingham, with 69 cosponsors, proposed to ban U.S. air and sea operations in Cambodia...
...alarm fire broke the monotony of Currier House's reading period Saturday night and destroyed a student's room in the Mary Caperton Bingham building, Marvin F. Lazerson, senior tutor in Currier House, said yesterday...
Helen Gilbert '36, chairman of the Board of Trustees, Barbara Wertheim Tuchman '33, Pulitzer prize-winning author, and Mary Caperton Bingham '28, newspaperwoman and civic leader, also attended the meeting. The three residences were named after these women...