Word: fisherisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Theodore Wedel, wife of the new president of the House of Deputies: "We Episcopalians will grow up eventually." At other meetings throughout the week, the delegates: Heard an opening sermon in Boston's Old North Church by the world's No. 1 Anglican, Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury. Warned Dr. Fisher, making a rare appearance on television:*"The essentially Christian virtues of moderation and toleration are assailed by extremisms and fanaticism all over the world, by doctrines of 'apartheid,' by demands that 'what we want is therefore our right, and we must have...
...business suit which made him seem a dull duck in a nest of full-plumaged drakes, a State Department lawyer named Adrian Fisher told the judges that the French were trying to weld Morocco into their own economy, insisted that the old treaty stands. The French, added Fisher, cannot very well complain that the evils of a money black market in Morocco are hurting France's domestic economy, while tolerating their own black market at home...
Rookie Outfielder Roy Hobbs could not have stumbled into the New York Knights' dugout at a worse time. Manager Pop Fisher was screaming mad, and with reason. The Knights were mired in the cellar, they had forgotten how to hit, their best pitcher had just blown up. Things were so tough that Pop had athlete's foot on his hands. When Roy reported, a big, 34-year-old semipro from the sticks with a bassoon case in his hands, Pop sneered: "Oh, my eight-foot uncle, what have we got here, the Salvation Army band?" Said...
...Fisher stepped in to restore the balance. Temple, one of the great churchmen of modern Christianity, had driven the church toward social reform by the force of his personality. The new archbishop merged his personality into the unifying force of his office. "I am a central churchman" was his favorite reply to leading questioners, and no one ever found out much more about his personal churchmanship...
...years of office, the archbishop has done more repairing than innovating, has advised more than he has ordered. This is to his taste and suits the present limitations of his office. The Archbishop of Canterbury, although the ranking official of Protestant Christianity since the 17th century, is, by Fisher's own description, "a constitutional governor." In Britain, he has direct authority only over his own diocese. Although he presides over the Church Assembly and deals with the government on ecclesiastical issues, he cannot of himself commit the church to any major decision...