Word: napier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Order and Chaos. "Elizabethan is a foreign language to them," says Epis copal Priest Walter Smith of Atlanta, speaking of couples who want to re write the service in their own phrase ology. Dr. B. Davie Napier, dean of the chapel at Stanford University, ad mits that he has become "increasingly uneasy with a ceremony that doesn't speak to us now." In one recent wedding ceremony performed by Dean Napier, the bridegroom vowed to take his wife "for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, in war and in peace, in order...
...unimportant. Nonetheless, Roman Catholic Philosopher Michael Novak of Stanford thinks that there may be "more religion among students who now act on their conscience than among those who sit in church every Sunday seeking to be blessed." The Protestant dean of chapel at Stanford, the Rev. B. Davie Napier, enthusiastically endorses this year's seniors, who, he says, "embrace an authentic, courageous morality that sees obscenity where it really is?in all schemes that thwart the realization of full humanity anywhere, from the campus to Saigon, or to hell and back...
...discourage Peggy and never showed any sign of disapproval." While Rusk was understandably troubled about the problems of a mixed marriage, he seemed even more concerned about Peggy's youth. The United Church of Christ minister who performed the ceremony, University Chaplain B. Davie Napier, detected no family hostility to the match. He discussed the problems of intermarriage with Peggy and Guy, found them well aware of the risks. As to their tender ages, Napier said: "Peggy, for her years, is amazing. She has a kind of maturity, a solidity, going way beyond her years...
...Washington knew of the wedding, the essential details were not known until hours before the wedding. One of the few hitches occurred just before Rusk was to enter the church from a dimly lighted side room. Maid of Honor Anne Kogler's hem came unstitched, and as Chaplain Napier's wife groped to thread a needle, Rusk obligingly lit paper matches and-not for the first time-risked having his fingers burned...
...Minority. Considering that the Beatles' trademark is offbeat irreverence, their effect on mature audiences is odd ly amusing. If the teeny-boppers made the Beatles plaster gods, many adults make them pop prophets, and tend to theorize solemnly, instead of seriously, about their significance. The Rev. B. Davie Napier, dean of the chapel at Stanford University, says that "no entity hits as many sensitive people as these guys do." Napier, who has dwelt in past sermons on Yellow Submarine and Eleanor Rigby, is convinced that Sgt. Pepper "lays bare the stark loneliness and terror of these lonely times...