Word: churches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WILLIAM DORAN CURTIS St. Joseph's Church Jasper, Minn...
...ANTHONY S. WOODS SJ. Church of St. Francis Xavier New York City
...Manhattan and vicinity. In 22 counties of the metropolitan area (reaching into New Jersey and Connecticut), 29.5% of the population is Roman Catholic, 18% Jewish and 15.9% Protestant; 2.2% is listed as "other," and 34.4% is unaffiliated. More than 55% of the city's estimated 960,000 Protestant church members are nonwhite. Among the nonwhites, the council, in an odd ethnological stance, listed 440,000 Negroes and almost 90,000 Puerto Ricans...
...read the works of D. H. Lawrence, but he had got hold of a few phrases and made brilliant use of them. There was, for instance, the occasion when a tweedy iconoclast named Cornelius Sticking loudly criticized a county family for putting on their best clothes to go to church on Sundays. The Lawrenceman merely looked out over his beard and asked mildly: "Is that a badness?" Sticking only managed to mutter something about "remarkably little to do with Christianity." The Lawrenceman went on placidly, with wide-open eyes staring into the distance: "Perhaps. Yet there is a ceremony...
...Born Loser. For Author Tevis a poolroom at 9 a.m. can seem like a "large church." But Eddie only knows the stale cigar and cigarette smoke, the massiveness of mahogany tables squatting impersonally, the lone hustler practicing shots. Hours may pass in a close game when the only life the hustler sees consists of shaded light on the brushed green cloth, the movement of balls elegantly cued, the sensuous dropping of globes into pockets. When it is over, win or lose, he wanders out into the streets that are usually slummy and unfriendly and back to a hotel room whose...