Word: episcopalian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rather ironic that the Episcopal bishop [James Coburn] in Massachusetts happens to be a Princeton man," says Gome3s, an Episcopalian minister, "since Harvard and the Roman Catholic Church have never been on the best of terms...
...will remain the laureate of the outcast, what he called "the fugitive kind"-the odd, the lonely, the emotionally violated. The sense of loss and vulnerability that one finds in his characters was imprinted on the playwright at an early age. Williams was born in his Episcopalian clergyman grandfather's rectory in Columbus, Miss. His forebears included a genealogical treeful of romantics, adventurers and notables: Poet Sidney Lanier (1842-81), some Tennessee Indian fighters, an early U.S. Senator, and, way back, a brother of St. Francis Xavier's. When Tennessee was seven, the sunlit backyards of his boyhood...
...time passed, the cycles of fury and sanity related to Lowell's development as a poet. Something of the fervid excitement of the early poems disappeared forever. He welcomed middle age as if it were synonymous with sanity. Settling down in Boston, he became an Episcopalian again. In 1957 he fathered a daughter, Harriet, by Hardwick...
...bred clergyman, especially the Episcopalian, is for some reason a wondrous curator of the lingo. He ascends his pulpit. "God doesn't want you on a guilt trip" he begins, inspired. "God's not into guilt. Bad vibes! He knows where you're coming from. God says, 'Guilt, that's a bummer.,' The Lord can be pretty far out about these things, you know." He goes into a wild fugue of nostalgia: "Sock it to me! Outasight! Right...
Blume explores both the spirit and the senses. In Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, the twelve-year-old protagonist must choose her religion. Margaret's father is Jewish, her mother Episcopalian. The girl also fears that she will be the last of her clique to menstruate. Prays Margaret: "I'm going to be the only one who doesn't get it. I know it, God. Just like I'm the only one without a religion. Please. . . let me be like everyone else...