Word: clergyman
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...will remain the laureate of the outcast, what he called "the fugitive kind"-the odd, the lonely, the emotionally violated. The sense of loss and vulnerability that one finds in his characters was imprinted on the playwright at an early age. Williams was born in his Episcopalian clergyman grandfather's rectory in Columbus, Miss. His forebears included a genealogical treeful of romantics, adventurers and notables: Poet Sidney Lanier (1842-81), some Tennessee Indian fighters, an early U.S. Senator, and, way back, a brother of St. Francis Xavier's. When Tennessee was seven, the sunlit backyards of his boyhood...
...unlawful arrests and urged respect for human rights, private property and individual privacy. Last week Khomeini took yet another popular step: he had the leadership of the small pro-Moscow Tudeh (Communist) Party arrested on charges of treason and espionage for the Soviet Union. Khomeini, said an Iranian clergyman, seemed to be telling his people, "As long as you don't oppose me, do whatever pleases...
Rogers also said that Brown is doing away with the early actionday it has held for the past three years, because his office had the feeling that "those who attend are already convinced that they will come. "He added that an early action program is like "the clergyman telling his congregation about the need for church attendance...
...brought from the outside world, such as tuberculosis and syphilis, as well as malnutrition, leprosy, maulings by lions or a scalp fungus caused by a lack of washing. In the cruel Kalahari Desert, explains the doctor, "water, if you find it, is for drinking, not washing." As an ordained clergyman, Merriweather also performed funeral services for patients who died...
Bernardin is greatly respected by his fellow American bishops, in part for his ability to work out compromises on controversial issues. Soft-spoken and mild-mannered, he has a knack of achieving his goals without causing commotion or rancor. Says a top Catholic clergyman, in admiration: "When Bernardin makes waves, they're always smooth waves...