Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After years of dutifully ministering to his flock, the Rev. Thomas Marshfield, 41, begins fleecing the ewes. When his trysts with the church organist and other assorted supplicants are exposed, Marshfield is shipped West for a month's rest to a desert spa for troubled clergymen. The regimen is ecumenical. There is golf in the afternoon, poker at night and daiquiris whenever. Mornings are spent alone at an obligatory typewriter, where orgies of therapeutic confession are the order...
...first session featured gun control advocates such as Boston Police Commissioner Robert J. diGrazia, Middlesex County Sheriff John J. Buckley, Boston City Councilman Lawrence diCara '71, representatives from private organizations, and several clergymen...
There were even those who believed that peace would exert its own form of pressure on the Proves. "The consequences of the truce breaking down are too grim to imagine," one of the eight Protestant clergymen who helped to arrange the cease-fire said earlier last week. "If this fails, it will be a fight to the finish." With a vengeance that seemed to prove him right, the peace was shattered shortly after the I.R.A. announcement, by a bomb explosion at an army post in northern Belfast...
...Gary, Indiana, thugs have invaded church services and meetings to rob and in one case, even rape parishioners. Clergymen of several denominations recently organized a committee to fight the barbarism. The New Mount Olive Baptist church took more direct action this month, after bandits shot up the church during a heist. Some New Mount Olive parishioners armed themselves and now stand guard while dressed in their Sunday best...
...colleagues pose problems for blacks, but minority students also seem to flock to the black administrator. Walter Leonard sums up the issue when he says, "Black students expect us to be one or more or all of these things: friends, guidance counselors, academic advisers, job references, mentors, spokesmen, companions, clergymen, clerks, as well as boosters in times of trouble, and congratulators in times of success...