Word: clericalization
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...Leader Cliff Barrows is warming up the singers. Song books are passed around to the crowd; then Barrows invites the audience to sing, swinging a glittering trombone; Bass-Baritone Bev Shea goes into action with a few oldtime-religion songs, and the collection and an invocation by a local cleric follow. Meanwhile Billy Graham sits on the rostrum, head in hand, meditating...
Samuel Johnson, a Yale graduate and Connecticut cleric, reluctantly rode down to accept the presidency of the new institution. Nine years later he resigned, bewildered by the complexities of city life, but only after he had seen the nation's fifty oldest college--renamed Columbia after the Revolutionary War--established as New York's challenge to Princeton, New Haven, and Cambridge...
...Phillips Brooks House. The first move in this trend came in early 1953, when the University declared the Chairman of the Board of Preachers the automatic director of P.B.H. Late the same semester, the University encountered considerable opposition from the Houses' undergraduate leaders when it named Hastie, a future cleric, to the post of Graduate Secretary...
Speaking after the business meeting where six honorary members and 80 seniors were elected to the society, the noted author, editor, and cleric used the ending of segregation as an example of "the True Face of Our Country." Segregation's end is more than just an isolated example of American opinion, he said. "The human race does not march forward by blind impulse," he explained; "it moves forward because people will choose for it to move ahead...
...operate it themselves. Since the train provides a convivial place to drink before the doors to the town pub officially swing, an affluent lush happily furnishes the money for the project. Intrigue follows in the form of nefarious busline operators and a pompous London transportation official. However, a sentimental cleric, who gets the town behind him by pointing out the local motive for having the railroad, provides sufficient opposition...