Word: clergyman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biography (A Man Called Peter) and the film made from it, was only nine when his father died of a heart attack. Later, as a Yale undergraduate, the boy had "no real commitment to Christ," majored in political science. Then a post-graduation summer spent with a clergyman and his family in California showed him that "a minister lives a life of service," prompted him to enroll in Princeton Theological Seminary. Now the man called John Peter Marshall, 25, has been ordained into the Presbyterian ministry and appointed assistant pastor of the Westminster Presbyterian Church in West Hartford, Conn. Mindful...
...more than 400 white churchmen sped to Selma. Many turned up without so much as a toothbrush or a change of socks, and few had any idea of where they would stay. Some seemed to think it was all something of a lark. Said one clergyman to a colleague as he stepped off the plane in Montgomery: "Fix bayonets! Charge!" Also on hand were secular crusaders, including Mrs. Paul Douglas, wife of Illinois' Democratic Senator, Mrs. Harold Ickes, widow of Franklin Roosevelt's Interior Secretary, and Mrs. Charles Tobey, widow of the former Republican Senator from New Hampshire...
...dillies until he can't dilly any longer; then he dallies," snapped Manhattan Presbyterian Clergyman Charles Leber. "I honestly don't know of one contribution he has made to the school system since he became superintendent," grumbled a member of the board of education. "We've been pleading with him, we've been begging him-we just couldn't get this guy moving," complained another...
...rising clergyman can win a reputation for wisdom in his sermons by using such phrases as "Christ-centered" and "faith of our fathers." Another favorite phrase is "holiness unto the Lord. No one has a clue to what this means, but it is one of the most soul-satisfying phrases in the lexicon." References to sin and sinners are always welcome, for they conjure up "images of orgies and black lingerie." Nothing makes the congregation feel so good as singing hymns like C. Austin Miles's In the Garden, which mentions the first personal pronoun 27 times...
Nivola's playground has been open long enough to gauge its success. Grownups are negative. A neighborhood priest deplores the possibility of a child tumbling off a fountain. A nearby housewife thinks it may all be obscene. A local clergyman says frankly: "This art escapes me." The kids? They all seem to love it. "Swings are for babies," says one seven-year-old lad. "I'm not a baby any more...