Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is no shortage of well-meaning people in British Novelist James Hanley's latest book: bobbies judges, probation officers and clergymen, even a kind neighbor who wants to befriend Mrs. Biddulph, after being shaken by the sight of her friend lying broken on the pavement. Mrs. B. rejects them all, apparently because they cannot substitute anything as authentic as her own bitter loneliness...
Accompanied by muffled drum rolls, Roy R. Scarpato, president of Citizens for Life, led his supporters in five minutes of silent prayer at noon. Four clergymen from different faiths then addressed the crowd, each expressing opposition to abortion and calling for God's forgiveness...
...improvement loans and thus accelerating the downward spiral of their communities. Secondly, Moyers keeps a door constantly open to cinema verite film makers willing to shoot something more illuminating than rock concerts. In December he and Producer Wayne Ewing did an emotionally potent study of an encounter group for clergymen who were trying to break through the inhibitions endemic to their profession...
...Connecticut-based organization Promoting Enduring Peace, Inc., a nationwide affiliation of 1,000 clergymen and laymen, decided in September to give their 1974 Gandhi Peace Award to Viet Nam War Protester Father Daniel Berrigan, 52. (Previous winners: the Rev. William Sloan Coffin Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Benjamin Spock and Rabbi Maurice Eisendrath.) But after the controversial Jesuit sounded off on the Middle East war recently, attacking both Israeli and Arab leadership (TIME, Dec. 31), some of P.E.P.'s 45 board members objected. The organization's head, the Rev. Roy Pfaff, polled the full board to find out whether...
...membership of the June conference, sponsored by the Roscoe Pound-American Trial Lawyers Foundation, was composed of lawyers, journalists, clergymen, academics and publishers...