Word: decorums
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...William Ward Ayer, onetime pastor of Manhattan's Calvary Baptist Church, warned Protestants against the spell of "individualistic" evangelists. "Biblically orthodox leaders have espoused a loose individualism in which order and decorum in church life have been forsaken, and have allowed appeals by religious 'glamour boys' to capture the imagination of the religious multitude, and millions of dollars have been poured into causes that have little effect upon the advancement of organized Christianity. These . . . unanchored movements, while undoubtedly helpful at times, may easily become the instrument that will disintegrate our organized Protestant church life...
...George, Novelist Isaac Rosenfeld tells a memorable story of psychological exhibitionists at a Greenwich Village drinking party. When one of them, a girl named Gloria, turns into a physical exhibitionist by doffing all her clothes, good old George, the steadiest character in the room, saves what is left of decorum by making a circus-style departure that shakes even Gloria out of her pose...
Citation: "In recognition of his New England decorum and quiet firmness in high office, his leadership in the American acceptance of world responsibility, and his probity in all matters concerned with the public weal...
...associate professor of History at Mount Holyoke College, Viereck received is Masters and Ph.D. degrees at Harvard and was elected to PBK. Viereck won a Pulitzer Prize in 1949 for his book of poems, "Terror and Decorum." His latest book--just published--is "Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals...
...Africa. The Africans had at last been delivered from their enemies. It was almost harder to escape their friends. For still another year the Abolitionists kept Cinqué's people in New England, drilling them in Calvinist hymns, training them to wear clothes and shoes and to preserve decorum, exhibiting them to the curious public to raise funds for a mission to be founded in West Africa...