Word: episcopalian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...compact has remained inviolate; members of all races (the church was desegregated at the close of the Civil War) and all major Protestant denominations have worshiped in Dr. Kirk's church (except, as a rule, Episcopalians, who usually go to one of Paris' Anglican churches or to the Episcopalian American Cathedral), in 1931 Dr. Joseph Cochran. a Presbyterian (now 90 and on hand for last week's celebrations), replaced the Rue de Berri church with a large Gothic church and a five-story community house on the Quai d'Orsay. When Presbyterian Williams took over...
Religion is less in the air at Kenyon (Episcopalian), although the college has its own divinity school, and its 500 students are required to attend chapel. A faculty member has defined the place of religion as "a part of education, like English, biology and math, but certainly a more important part than the others." Despite these points, one official of Kenyon frankly admits: "The Episcopalians and the other major denominations have fellowship groups which are sneered at by about half the campus...
...lifetime of just such preparation, plus a shrewd sense of utility, has established Arlene as the first lady of TV-and probably the highest paid. Toughest hurdle was Papa Kazanjian, who bundled Episcopalian Arlene off to a Roman Catholic convent when she was seven, later put her in Manhattan's flossy Finch School for proper young ladies. In a final, futile effort to steer her clear of the theater, he bought her a gift shop on Madison Avenue (Studio d'Arlene), which closed in the Depression. Soon a toughened veteran of the soap-opera circuit (Big Sister, Aunt...
...treated by them as near equals precisely because they make no unseemly claims to equality, e.g., in Arthur Winner's church, the Negro sexton deferentially takes communion last. Racially barbed is Cozzens' depiction of Eliot Woolf, a razor-sharp New York lawyer and a Jew-turned-Episcopalian whose "astute smelling-out of every little advantage . . . outside due process" makes Arthur Winner slightly queasy...
...should be a man.' He looked at me with a certain disgust, and Mother would say, 'Oh, but think how intelligent he is!' He was a practical man. and he was bitterly disappointed in me. and would be today. He was an austere Episcopalian who knew his duty and did it. He wouldn't think writing was man's work. I still think he was right, if the truth were told. If I could have been a really efficient athlete, I never would have written another line...