"She was the neighborhood nymphomaniac," White told "Sunday Morning" in 2011. White played the part hilariously, and became a fixture of the series, winning two of her five Emmy Awards for the role. She was a welcome presence throughout the '60s on such game shows as "To Tell the Truth," "What's My Line?," "Liar's Club," "It Takes Two," and "Password," where she met her husband, host Allen Ludden.ĭuring the fourth season of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," one script described a character, Sue Ann Nivens, as "a sickeningly sweet Betty White type." Sweet – as well as scheming, conniving, and laughably lustful. In the '50s she starred in the sitcom "Life With Elizabeth," and her own talk program, "The Betty White Show." After the war, when she served as a member of the American Women's Voluntary Services, she began hosting a live variety show, "Hollywood on Television," in 1949. The Associated Press contributed to this gallery.įor generations, the actress, comedian and television presenter Betty White (January 17, 1922-December 31, 2021) was one of TV's most familiar and beloved faces, often hilariously playing against the sweet image of her smiling eyes and dimpled cheeks on the series "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "The Golden Girls."īorn in Oak Park, Illinois, and raised in California during the Great Depression, White performed on radio and for an experimental TV station in Los Angeles in the 1930s. It's time to call forth another name.Betty White, of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show." | CBS Photo Archive Getty ImagesĪ look back at the esteemed personalities who left us this year, who'd touched us with their innovation, creativity and humanity.īy senior producer David Morgan. Now, it's time to discard that tired label that ties us too closely with a particular race and class. We are not some sort of upper-crust elite society. And I, for one, am tired of pretending that we want to hang out at the Country Club and eat cucumber sandwiches in fancy hats. It’s an exciting time, and it is an important moment for us to name who we want to be. In my daughter’s generation, European whites will be the minority. My generation is not as well-off as my parents. These pockets of growth reflect our larger society. In the PC(USA), immigrant churches and churches with underrepresented racial ethnic minorities are growing while many white congregations dwindle. This is an important moment for our church. If these voices have taught us to look beyond our individualistic spirituality, greedy capitalism, and work for the world as it ought to be, then why would we align ourselves with the elite and upper crust?Īlso, our labels not only define who we have been, but they call forth who we want to become. Our influences have come from those who listened to the oppressed, understood suffering, and made us hungry for liberation. Yet, when we used the term “Mainline,” then we white-wash our history and excise our great reformers. Liberal Black congregations and denominations have transformed our ecclesiology in profound ways. Even though we often look to the male European Reformers for much of our theology, even though a quick browse through the theology departments of most seminaries will reveal an overwhelming number of older, white men, we also know our thought for more than hundred years has been challenged by those working in poverty-stricken neighborhoods, with the civil rights movement, from subjugated women, and in the midst of immigrants' struggles. The list goes on, but there is something important about the names. Du Bois, Walter Rauschenbusch, Dorothy Day, Howard Thurman, Martin Luther King, Gustavo Gutierrez, Elizabeth Johnson, Rosemary Radford Ruether, and James Cone. If you asked what prominent theologians and thinkers have formed the American progressive movement, I daresay that many of us would point to W.E.B. It was not a term that denominational leaders came up with, but we have embraced it for many years. By the 1950s, according to Baltzell, the term “Mainliner ha become synonymous with ‘upper crust,’ ‘old family,’ or ‘socialite.' Digby Baltzell described this Main Line in his 1958 study, Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National Upper Class…. In America, mainline has referred colloquially to the railroad leading to the elite northwestern suburbs of Philadelphia. Sometimes that list is longer and other times it’s shorter. In The Christian Century and the Rise of Mainline Protestantism, Elesha Coffman outlines the origins of term “Mainline." The label commonly refers to the Episcopal Church, The Presbyterian Church (USA), northern Baptist churches, the Congregational church (now UCC), the United Methodist Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church, and the Disciples of Christ.
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