Word: emerson
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...pink stucco home just north of Manhattan, famed Protestant Preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick, longtime (1930-46) pastor of Manhattan's Rockefeller-endowed interdenominational Riverside Church, turned 80 and offered a wise, gentle explanation of why many sermons are boring. "The business of an essay is elucidation," said he. "The business of a sermon is transformation. Some sermons are deadly dull because they are little essays on pious subjects...
Mulder and Mortensen have also garnered brief accounts of Mormonism from a lineup of 19th century notables: Horace Greeley, Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson (who called Mormonism an "after-clap of Puritanism"), John Greenleaf Whittier, and Mark Twain. The latter's revulsion at the concept of polygamy melted at his first sight of the "poor, ungainly and pathetically 'homely' creatures" that were the Mormon wives. "No," Twain wrote, "--the man that marries one of them has done an act of Christian charity which entitles him to the kindly applause of mankind, not their harsh censure--and the man that marries...
...Brashares of Chicago, Eugene M. Frank of St. Louis and John Wesley Lord of Boston; the Right Rev. W. Appleton Lawrence, retired Episcopal Bishop of Western Massachusetts; Presbyterian President John A. Mackay of Princeton Theological Seminary; Congregational Dean John C. Bennett of Union Theological Seminary; Baptists Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick (retired) and Dr. Robert J. McCracken of Manhattan's interdenominational Riverside Church; Methodist Dr. Ralph W. Sockman of Manhattan's Christ Church; and Baptist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. of Montgomery, Ala. ¶The Woman's Division of Christian Service of the Methodist Board of Missions threw...
...eighth largest life insurance company in the U.S. (insurance in force: $9 billion). A graduate engineer (University of Wisconsin, '22) and amateur gardener (roses), Slichter, brother of Harvard Economist Sumner Slichter, has been a vice president in charge of Northwestern Mutual's investment portfolio since 1949¶Emerson Foote, 51, a founder and onetime president of Foote, Cone & Belding, who once shocked Madison Avenue by voluntarily giving up the $12 million American Tobacco account, again caught fellow admen flat-footed by rejoining McCann-Erickson, from which he resigned as executive vice president 14 months ago. Returning...
Leonard Boudin, a prominent passport lawyer, will address the Harvard Liberal Union's forum tonight. He will speak on "The State Department vs. The Right to Travel" in Emerson...