Word: stringfellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sparkplug and chairman of the four-day conference was young Manhattan Lawyer F. William Stringfellow, 30, a graduate of Harvard Law School ('56), who, after visiting 30 law schools during the past year, became convinced that faculty members are disturbed by the excessive pragmatism of U.S. legal education...
...conviction is growing," he says, "that the law should not be isolated from other disciplines." Episcopalian Stringfellow merges his own Christian concern so thoroughly with his profession that he lives and works in an East Harlem tenement section, practicing criminal law in order to "share the burdens of other...
Perhaps no educator willing to rush into print thinks as little of U.S. education as Stringfellow Barr. Now professor of humanities at Rutgers, he has taught at his alma mater, the University of Virginia, pioneered (with Hutchins and Adler) the Great Books idea, served as president of Great Books-oriented St. John's College in Maryland. At 60, "Winkie" Barr has committed a first novel. Not surprisingly, it is about life among professors, and even less surprisingly, it says that U.S. professors, students, college presidents and trustees are a sorry...
...continuous war against teaching about the United Nations or using any UNESCO material in the schools. They succeeded in eliminating the annual U.N. essay contest, flooded the town with anti-U.N. literature, e.g., "United Nations Seizes, Rules American Cities." They have denounced such speakers as former Rhodes Scholars Stringfellow Barr and Clarence Streit, partly because some citizens decided that the Rhodes program (launched in 1903) was nothing but a scheme to promote British rule of the world. They also kept out Pasadena's former Superintendent Willard Goslin. "A very controversial figure," said one school-board member, adding...
...signers of the "Chicago Draft" was Stringfellow Barr, former president of St. John's College at Annapolis, who represents a distinct segment of the world government movement. For Barr forgets about a political federation, at least for the time present, and instead faces the economic problems of the world's underdeveloped peoples. In Let's Join the Human Race he outlines a plan for a giant International development Authority, similar to this country's T.V.A. Clearly, the Cold War had driven Barr and others to Asia, where the need for food and medicine overshadowed vague plans of politized federation...