Word: fatherly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...touring. Some day, he thinks, he would like to be a "wellrounded" musician on the order of Leonard Bernstein, whom he idolizes "except for his popular music-I can't appreciate that." Meantime, the problem in the Hollander family is to find a house with an extra room: father and son find they cannot practice anywhere within earshot of one another...
...driver who takes chances and trusts to luck. If he has an accident, the church cannot absolve him until he has made good all damages, aided any victims and avoided perjury in court. If he gets himself killed, he has in a sense committed the sin of suicide. Father Perico would slow down drivers with a campaign of highway slogans. Samples: HURRY is ALMOST ALWAYS A SIGN OF PRIDE AND EGOISM, and HIGHWAY IMPATIENCE IS A SIGN OF LITTLE EDUCATION AND INFANTILISM...
Three fundamental modern attitudes toward sin, writes Father Ivo Cisar, are the pessimist's "I cannot avoid sin because it is inevitable," the optimist's "I cannot sin because sin is a myth," and the expert's "I can sin because sin is only weakness." The Christian's attitude: "I can avoid...
...romantic answers in "screening" sessions, he rolled up $20,000 on CBS's $64,000 Question and $64,000 Challenge. What happened to the money? The minister spent some on himself, gave $12,000 to a home for orphans. Said he: "I wanted to be a Protestant Father Flanagan...
Front-Porch Campaign. McKinley was a Puritan by inheritance. His father, an Ohio pig-iron founder, gave Will's mother the most austere wedding trip imaginable-a drive in the buggy to a nearby spring for a refreshing drink of water (the month was January). The son was as free of vice as he was of intellectual curiosity. Throughout his life, his favorite plays were Rip Van Winkle and The Cricket on the Hearth. Methodist McKinley's only unseemly heritage from the smoke-filled rooms where he started his political career was the habit of smoking an occasional...