Word: amenability
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...audience applauded. It cried "Amen!" when he read from the Bible. "The Lord," he shouted, "has called America to a barbecue and 50,000,000 people are starving. . . . The only difference between the Democratic and Republican leaders is that the Democrats are skinny from the ankles up and the Republicans from the ears down." Griefstricken, he declared, "From the deception, false pledges and promise-breaking by politicians, it looks like it's almost hopeless to look for the American people to be relieved...
Thou who dost shepherd the night winds and makes the clouds His chariot, pass along the horizons of our daily lives. . . . Forbid that we should be lured to drink from the goblets of spiced sin or let fall the wreaths of manhood from our foreheads. . . . Through Christ, Amen...
...London a solemn convention of British church musicians was admonished by the Most Rev. William Temple, Archbishop of York, to stop ending hymns with "Amen." Said the beefy, chuckling Archbishop: "I would plead that we should get out of the evil habit. If the tune is a good one, it comes to an end by itself. To put an 'Amen' afterward is redundant-I think it is rather a bore...
Jesuit Sullivan publicly denounced Within the Gates for its "sympathetic portrayal of the immoralities described, and even more so the clear setting forth of the futility of religion as an effective force in meeting the problems of life." A hearty ''Amen" went up from the Catholic Action Society and the Legion of Decency. A Methodist and a Universalist official also nodded assent. Yet the Puritanical Watch & Ward Society, which ran Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude out of Boston in 1929, coolly doubted if O'Casey's work was "bad enough to be banned...
...Amen and amen! TIME-reader D. J. Foss is only voicing what I believe is the honest sentiment of most Christian ministers and a great many Christian laity...