Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first Quadrennial General Conference the Methodists had held in Boston for 96 years. On hand were 60-odd bishops and 7,000 lesser clergymen and laymen from some 50 countries. They represented 21 million Christians who call themselves Methodists...
...first glance, the parents, too, seemed fine; they were just the kind of people who, birth-controllers say, ought to have more children. Except in one case, there was no known insanity in their families. The fathers were scientists, college professors, artists, clergymen, business executives, psychologists, psychiatrists. All but five of the mothers had gone to college; all but one had been active, before or after marriage, as scientists, laboratory technicians, physicians, nurses, librarians, artists...
...Buck Hill Falls, Pa., 100 doctors, lawyers, businessmen, clergymen and engineers sat down to discuss professional education, after three days agreed that it left a lot to be desired. Most frequently voiced objection: the professional schools are turning out technically trained but socially irresponsible graduates ("useless or dangerous to society"). Columbia Law Professor Karl Llewellyn thought that the professional schools should not neglect the bottom 90% for the sake of the top 10%. Said he: "In the average town of 100,000, trying to find a good lawyer is as difficult as trying to find a good dentist...
Physicians, psychiatrists, sociologists and clergymen testified, argued and contradicted each other. Some felt that Zoologist Kinsey had poached on their professional preserves. Others were just confused...
...Otis Rice, professor of pastoral theology at Manhattan's General Theological Seminary (Episcopal), was more hopeful. The book will not change the basic tenets of moral theology, he said, but will help clergymen to see "the realities of sex." Professor Rice was not sorry that the book has stirred up huge interest in religious circles; he happily reported that two copies have already disappeared from the seminary's shelves...