Word: reunion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...imperative for the church to unite under a single authoritative spokesman. "We need the Pope," he said, "because in this perilous age we need one symbolically potent bishop to give expression to the word of the Lord for our day," Myers further argued that there can be no successful reunion of Christianity without the Pope as its visible center. He suggested that Protestants should leave such doctrinal problems as papal infallibility for the theologians to resolve...
...alumni reunion used to be a college's equivalent of the lost weekend-a four-day binge of old dad and Old Grand-Dad, nostalgia and nonsense, high jinks and lowlife. Now, says Yale's Associate Secretary Howard S. Weaver, "the concept of the reunion as a big party is dead. There's an overlay of seriousness on top of the fun and games." Increasingly, U.S. colleges and their grads look upon the reunion as the chance for alumni to catch up on their education. Easing out the cocktail parties are lectures and seminars by faculty experts...
...weekend at Yale, for example, an estimated 450 alumni and wives will be paying $12.50 per person for four-day seminars on such subjects as organic evolution, manuscript study and the changing world of scholarship, films as 20th century art. Harvard, which has set aside one day of its reunions for intellectual activity for ten years now, is offering grads two "university symposia"-one on Asia and the U.S. future moderated by former Presidential Assistant Adam Yarmolinsky, another on student careers, at which one lecturer will be Sociologist David Riesman. At nearby M.I.T., the alumni reunion features management seminars...
Among the alumni expected to return for the reunion...
...farsighted. Corrected at four. Until then saw only large patterrns. Emphasis persisted after correction. Started young documenting against world developments, formalized as Chronofile 1917. Chronofile disclosed Newton's era world at rest supersded by Einstein's world constant change..." His four-thousand-word life history, written for the fiftieth reunion report, concluded, "Good luck for me I was born crosseyed...