Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After three hours of tumultuous debate, delegates to the founding convention of the new United Methodist Church last week voted to drop a longstanding requirement that its ministers vow to refrain from drinking and smoking. Henceforth, the church will simply require clergymen to, pledge "to exercise responsible self-control by personal habits conducive to bodily health, mental and emotional maturity," in accordance with "the highest ideals of Christian life...
...Local clergymen have provided funds to pay for dinner for the expected 400 members of the Poor People's March staying at Harvard and Radcliffe tonight...
Permutations. The fact is that beneath this suburban idyl, Updike's couples are caught up in a black mass of community sex. Their Puritan gods have retreated to unawesome, half-deserted churches, where beaten clergymen, sizing up the businessman congregations, croak about an improbable Christ who "offers us present security, four-and-a-half percent compounded every quarter." The Biblical woman accused of adultery would be safe in Tarbox; here no stones are thrown, only envious glances. With no heat left in the Protestant American crucible, the comfortable couples of Tarbox have reached out for another kind of warmth...
...AMERICAN ALCOHOLIC (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A study of the social implications of alcoholism in middle-class America. Actor James Daly narrates, as housewives, clergymen, farmers and professionals in clinics around the country describe the lure of the bottle and the agony of the cure...
...Resistance calls for a strike followed a request by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference urging clergymen and laymen from all over the country to join them in demanding the implementation of King's program...