Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Once inside one of the seminary's U-shaped, granite buildings, the energetic theologian turned to the question of church and state, and the discussion reached back to Thomas Aquinas and back to the transitional thought of 16th century St. Robert Bellarmine.* At one point. Father Murray had to...
At times, the talks eased away from the deeper subject matter to such topics as the effect of drugs on the human consciousness, and the effects of Parisian restaurants on the palate. When his conferences with Father Murray were finished. Auchincloss returned to his Manhattan apartment to pore over volumes...
It was Protestant Douglas Auchincloss' 17th TIME cover story (among the others: Protestant Theologian Paul Tillich, Rabbi Louis Finkelstein, and the Dead Sea Scrolls) in 14 years as TIME's Religion writer. Of this one, Auchincloss had an impression he will not soon forget: "The most relentlessly intellectual...
* The title page of Volume 1 of the complete works of Bellarmine (seven volumes) in the Fordham University Library forms the background of Artist Boris Chaliapin's cover painting.
With less than two months left before the end of the Great Crusade and the opening of the New Frontier, the Kennedy Administration last week began to take shape. Announcing four key appointments and nearing final decisions on several others, President-elect Kennedy, by the nature of his selections, indicated...