Word: clergymen
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Among other forebears of the Queen, not all recognized by Burke's, are Shakespeare, three clergymen, an innkeeper, Frederick the Great of Prussia, a plumber, and Spain's11th century hero, Rodrigo (El Cid) Diaz de Bivar. Elizabeth's surviving kinsfolk include eight-year-old Kira Alexandrine Harris of Amarillo, Texas...
...When I look out into the market place." complains one Catholic priest, "I can no longer distinguish the believer from the pagan. I can distinguish the Jehovah's witness; I can distinguish the followers of Father Divine -but not the followers of the traditional faiths." A majority of clergymen gloomily accept the guilt of the churches for failing to administer to the Negro, the workingman, the drug addict, the divorcee-to nearly everyone, in fact, but the prosperous middle classes. Too often, says Stanford's Brown, paraphrasing the time-honored description of the Anglican Church in Britain...
Beyond the Fringe. No musical, but the funniest revue in years, this lunatic entertainment offers four young English antiEstablishmentarians aiming blowgun darts of parody with poisonously amusing accuracy at Shakespeare, Harold Macmillan, and positive-thinking clergymen...
...great majority of Protestant and Catholic clergymen and theologians?as well as many non-Christians?agree that Christianity is much stronger today than it was when World War II ended. Their reason is not the postwar "religious revival" (which many of them distrust as superficial) or the numerical strength of Christianity. It is that the Christian Church has finally recognized and faced the problems that have cut off much of its communication with the modern world...
Relax and look up the word reverend in Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1961). You and your Protestant clergymen are hopelessly behind the times. The word reverend has graduated to the category of a noun, "rev'er-end-n-s: a member of the clergy: minister, priest, pastor . . . (saw the Reverend walking down the road)." Call me Reverend...