Word: flock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Puritan author of The Pilgrim's Progress. All of them had their problems with the Church of England. John Wesley, himself an ordained Anglican priest, broke with the church when it refused to recognize his movement, and ordained his own ministers. Quaker Fox and his flock were hounded by church authorities for much of their lives. Bunyan spent twelve years in prison for preaching without a license...
...Miss Cronin doesn't have enough flair to be the proper Albee bitch, the position is adequately filled by Paddy Croft as Mrs. Toothe, the directress of a high class cathouse. Her scenes with her "little flock," most of whom number among Richard and Jenny's neighbors, manage to straddle the opposing tendencies in the play. Added to Richard's amazed discovery of the thousands of dollars his wife has stashed away, she is faced with the fact that the slightly surreal is usually more effective than the sermon...
...would be "lowincome and, ultimately, overwhelmingly Negro. These victims of our social order 'prefer' the uniform because of socio-economic compulsions-for the three square meals a day, for the relative egalitarianism of the barracks or the foxhole, for the chance to be promoted." Conceivably, Negroes could flock to the volunteer forces for both a respectable reason, upward mobility, and a deplorable one, to form a domestic revolutionary force...
Cornell, the perennial powerhouse of the circuit, is its old self this year. All-American Ken Dryden will be in the goal again and Coach Ned Harkness has a flock of sophomores who should dominate the league...
Although the new ministry has not yet been planned, it will cut down on what Mumma yesterday called the "theological zoo" at the two universities. Discarding the assumption that each minister works only with his own flock, the system might involve fewer staff members and would certainly be more "issue and task-oriented, not institution-oriented," Mumma said...