Word: clergyman
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...Antonio, De Blanc expounded his view that women have a built-in need to procreate, that frustrating this natural consequence of sexual intercourse results in guilt, and guilt leads to psychological damage. Non-Catholic doctors and churchmen were quick to disagree. ¶ William H. Genne, a Congregationalist clergyman and De Blanc's Protestant opposite number as director of the Department of Family Life for the National Council of Churches: "Contraception can bring many beneficial emotional and spiritual effects when morally used. Protestant clergymen at home and abroad have seen not only the debilitating physical and socio-economic effects...
...picture, with a few minor exceptions, sticks to the story like icing to a sugar bun. Pollyanna (Hayley Mills) is a poor little orphan girl, the eleven-year-old daughter of a kindly, idealistic clergyman who has "gone to heaven to be with mother" and left her in the British West Indies without "anybody but the Ladies Aid" and her Aunt Polly (Wyman), a middle-aged puckerpuss who lives all alone in a vast Victorian mansion somewhere east of the Mississippi and does good to her fellow townsfolk whether they like it or not. When Aunt Polly hears...
...were reading newspapers in a club in Hell. One by one they revealed their faces: Shaw, Wilde, Byron. Happy shades, they play poker for their professional reputations ("I'll wager Mrs. Warren's Profession"-"I'll raise you Childe Harolde") and tolerate Satan, dressed as a clergyman, as he steals their jokes...
...textbooks, their jargon and their pessimism." Spiritual Ovaltine. Son of a lay preacher who settled in California, Kennedy was born in Benzonia, Mich. With no doubts about his calling ("I can't remember a time in my life when I wasn't sure I would become a clergyman"), he sailed through the College of the Pacific, the Pacific School of Religion, and the Hartford Theological Seminary. Ordained in 1932, he spent the next 16 years as pastor of four different churches, taught at the Pacific School of Religion and Nebraska Wesleyan. He was elected Bishop of the Portland...
...cases, the family clergyman had to be called in to soothe unduly ruffled householders. Press, radio and TV were told about the move, asked to say nothing about it to avoid attracting crackpots. They agreed...