Word: clerical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second assumption is that the intellectual must be a critic of his society, an opponent of established values, playing the part of a secular and reproachful cleric. This Socratic role has always been one essential function of the intellectual, but only in recent times has it come to be looked on as the only function; a great many intellectuals today demand their daily cup of instant hemlock...
...segregation, but it is a charge that does not bear scrutiny. Since 1950, he has refused to speak before segregated audiences, and has quietly integrated his own staff; one of his 14 associate evangelists, the Rev. Howard Jones of Ohio, is a Negro, and Billy has invited another Negro cleric to join the Graham organization. Speaking in the South, Billy has denounced racial discrimination as a product of man's sinfulness; he has refused to preach in South Africa because his audiences would be segregated...
...would like to clarify a point made in your article appearing in today's CRIMSON, entitled, "Cleric Asks Rights Focus on One Area...
...trumpets blared, the procession of robed clerics marched slowly through the crowded nave of Washington's vaulted Gothic National Cathedral. In side the chancel, the Rt. Rev. Arthur Lichtenberger addressed the stocky, grey-haired cleric who succeeds him as Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church: "I, Arthur, do induct and install you, Right Reverend Father in God, John, into the office of Presiding Bishop, with all its rights, dignities, honors, and privileges. May our Lord Jesus Christ preserve your going out and your coming in, from this time forth forevermore. Amen...
JONATHAN SWIFT, by Nigel Dennis. The horror and tragedy of the God-haunted cleric who was English literature's most powerful ironist, consummately examined by a noted contemporary British satirist...