Word: clergyman
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...jelled. Throughout this concert, Coleman displays an impressive ability to play in a wide variety of styles and moods. On 'Sadness' his tone is delicate, almost moaning, while on 'Ballad,' he strains at the melody as if fervently hoping or wishing. In 'The Happy Fool' and the facetiously titled 'Clergyman's Dream,' Coleman lays out a straight improvisational structure and swings through his soloes, throwing out r & b phrases in between experimental thrusts...
...patchwork of auto factories, union halls, corner taverns and conventional churches. Yet in this prosaic setting has arisen in recent years a belief as startling as anything cult-filled California has to offer. The unlikely focus of the new faith is Bernard Gill, for 13 years a respected clergyman in the Church of the Nazarene. Fed up with "promotion, programs, plans," he searched for a fiercer, purer form of Fundamentalism. Seven years ago, at 43, he quit the Nazarenes and with a handful of parishioners established the independent Colonial Village Church...
...ethicists, only Episcopal Clergyman Joseph Fletcher of Situation Ethics fame justified unlimited experimentation on fetuses that face abortion, if the mother gives her consent. The traditional requirement of "informed consent" for experiments is a thorny one when the subject is a fetus. Ramsey, as well as Georgetown's Father Richard McCormick and Rabbi Seymour Siegel of Jewish Theological Seminary, pointed out that parents have been allowed to give consent for treatment of a child because they have the child's interests at heart. The consent of mothers who plan to have abortions is morally questionable...
...perk up this familiar rehash, Updike gives his clergyman a bag of Nabokovian wordplays and tries to pass him off as Humbert Humbert (in Lolita, Humbert observed, "You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style"). Marshfield rattles off alliterations as if he were on death row. He describes a local nursery "which piously kept its Puerto Rican peony-pluckers in a state of purposeful peonage." With nary a blush he writes of returning home to the "fusty forgiveness of my fanlighted foyer." His frequent dissections of sex and theology revolve around a central question: How many...
...classes are enlivened by guest appearances-an insurance agent, realtor, clergyman, marriage counselor and banker. But the students sometimes have firsthand experience of their own. During one lecture on abortions an 18-year-old girl rose to announce that she had had three abortions herself. She was invited to take over the discussion. The final outside expert is a lawyer who explains how to file for divorce. Last year, as an added touch of realism, Allen brought in a recent-and embittered -divorcee to talk about financial problems. "She really gave the kids a jolt," he says. Toward...