Word: clergyman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Monday is the parish clergyman's usual day off. But the rest of his week is apt to be a hectic succession of committee meetings, Boy Scout jamborees, ladies' auxiliary suppers. From the pulpit of Harvard's Memorial Church last week, Dr. Samuel H. Miller, dean of the Harvard Divinity School, launched into a blistering tirade against Protestant clergy who, at the insistence of their congregations, reduce their office to a "mad dervish dance of unenlightened public activities...
...seminaries, argued Dean Miller, must take some of the blame. Theological education has become "a vulgarized form of a trade school," failing to develop the young clergyman's intellect or make him sensitive to the heights and depths of human experience. Today's minister, warned Miller, "must be sure his mind is sharpened to its utmost, lest he blunder about the world with a rough and stupid carelessness, hoping that he might hit upon the will of God merely because of his good intentions...
...compulsive frenzy which is so often part of a clergyman's manner is probably due to his own guilty realization that he has spent too much time on making his church well-liked and not enough on dealing with the real intellectual problems of his profession...
...thorough education and a consuming interest in theological problems are not sufficient to make an ideal clergyman either, Miller maintained. "To say the least, our situation is bewildering," for ministers must be neither scholars to such an extent that they lose contact with the present, nor agents of the present to such an extent that they forget the larger order of reality, he asserted...
...Negro clergyman ("He don't say nothing about my fighting-everybody likes a winner, man"), Moore was already a professional of sorts at the age of seven, fighting in impromptu preliminaries in Springfield's Memorial Hall and pulling off his gloves to scramble for the nickels and dimes that were tossed into the ring. By 1952, Bantamweight Moore was good enough to win the A.A.U. title, reach the quarter-finals of the Olympics. Turning pro the next year, Moore seemed to be only a so-so fighter until 1957, when he suddenly came alive, has since...