Word: returning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Daniel P. Moynihan, assistant to President Nixon for Urban Affairs, announced Sunday that he will resign before February to return to Harvard...
Moynihan's decision comes within the time limit of two years for Faculty members on leave of absence. Under the rule, a Faculty member may not return to his job after more than two years in another post...
...Arkansas's lonely dissenter, he came home to something of a hero's welcome. Several hundred Arkansans, unwilling to wait for his arrival at Little Rock, rode by wagon and horseback some 45 miles to De Valls Bluff to cheer his return. Later, the bishop received an unexpected dividend from the very declaration he had opposed.* Bismarck's Kulturkampf drove many persecuted German Catholics to the New World. Fitzgerald, a hearty, outgoing man who kept his home open to any traveler, managed to attract some of the refugees. There had been only 1,600 Catholics...
Francine is back in the church now, inspired partly by a number of quixotic and unorthodox experiments in social radicalism that have challenged the conservative premises of institutional Catholicism. Her own return began one day in 1967, when she found that her sons' religion class was discussing the inner meaning of the Apostles' Creed rather than the Q. and A. textbook answers of the Baltimore Catechism on which she had been raised. Listening to her children, Francine decided that they were learning nothing she could not accept. She then learned of a new tribe of radical Catholics: priests...
...metallic precision. When Home goes to Russia, Blum changes his style to a controlled lyricism that quietly points toward a meaning: man can surmount such obscenities as technological soul snatching by confronting his beginnings and forging a new mythology. In Home's case the transcendence occurs during a return to what is literally his motherland. ∙R.Z. Sheppard