Word: clericalization
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...studies of Rabelais, published almost simultaneously, come as a periodic reminder of a writer who was surpassed in his age only by Shakespeare and Cervantes. Rabelais, by ancient (78) English Novelist-Essayist John Cowper Powys, enfolds the jolly old cleric in a loose shirt of verbiage that he would surely have found too hairy for comfort; The Laughing Philosopher, by M. P. Willcocks, sometimes muffles the Rabelaisian laughter in a modesty he certainly never felt. Yet both books bring back a strong, winey breath of the most exuberant of writers from Aristophanes to Balzac; a man who drank life...
...Protestant churchman in the U.S. will start the day as a cleric, by celebrating Holy Communion; at the 11 o'clock service he will be sitting in a pew with his family, like any layman...
Moliere's comedy is ageless, though it is set in 17th century Paris. Tartuffe is a sanctimonious cleric who attempts to seduce a bourgeois' wife and wealth. The consequent humor abounds in the amusing situation and the clever play on words. It is a humor which lampoons hypocrisy and stuffiness until both are laid...
...With a much clearer eye, in January 1949 the new Secretary had faced Western Europe. Dean Gooderham Acheson, son of an Anglican cleric, graduate of Groton, Yale and Harvard Law School, could understand the West...
John Donne, the 17th Century cleric who wrote these words, was a great enough poet to rise to the loftiest challenge any Christian artist can face: the translation of faith into the medium of art. Before Donne's day, such painters as Giotto, Raphael, Bellini and Leonardo met the same challenge on the same high plane. Bach and Handel, a little later, met it with their music...