Word: clerical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vineyard, heard a call for help, traced it to a ravine, where she found an Episcopal clergyman. Climbing there, he had brought a boulder down on him and broken his leg. Actress Cornell whipped up a makeshift splint, applied it to the ministerial leg, briskly bundled the cleric off to the hospital in her station wagon...
...tall, greying cleric has the sort of job he has always wanted. First he moved the editorial office from Boston to Manhattan ("We brought only a dictionary from Boston"), then devised a new format, eye-catching typography, weeded the first issue's articles of verbosity, which he feels chokes much of the religious press...
...Minute of Prayer (Mutual) offers a war prayer by a different cleric each weekday evening. Because it follows Superman and precedes Uncle Don, children hear the prayer accidentally, but write many approving letters...
Then there was Epstein's Christ, which one outraged cleric compared (with Empire inclusiveness) to "some degraded Chaldean or African . . . an Asiatic, American or Hun . . . some emaciated Hindu or badly grown Egyptian...
...would have seemed even more surprising to men of earlier generations-for exactly opposite reasons. For centuries Christianity and education went hand in hand. Throughout the Middle Ages education was so exclusively the domain of the church that any prisoner who could read was recognized as a cleric (clerk) and could get his case transferred to the more lenient ecclesiastical courts. Every great university in Britain and the U.S. was founded with strong religious motives, largely to educate ministers. And until the last century the idea of education without religious instruction was as novel as the idea of travel without...