Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Supreme Patriarch of Thailand, landed in Manhattan last week after junketing austerely across the U.S. Paying typical tourist obeisance to the Himalayan-high Empire State Building, he padded sandal-clad and saffron-robed around the 86th-floor observation platform, noted the artifacts of Western civilization-but few of his flock. "I have seen many people in this country who are interested in Buddhism," commented His Holiness, "but not too many...
...million people in Britain, more than 27 million have been baptized in the Church of England, but fewer than 10 million have been confirmed, and fewer than 3,000,000 are registered on parish rolls. If these facts might seem to argue that the church should win back its flock, the newest Archbishop of Canterbury, on his enthronement last week, made no sign that he will attempt to spoon-feed religion or pretend that Christianity is another kind of tranquilizer. Arthur Michael Ramsey, a man with a single-minded devotion to God,* made clear that...
...around him, fumbling in his robes for his spectacles and his handkerchief. Carefully he cleaned each lens, placed the glasses on his nose, and wiped a drop of moisture from the palm of one hand. Then he began in fluting tones to preach for the first time to a flock that is noted in all Christendom for its indifference to the church...
...people in his France-sized diocese. "This is one of the most backward areas in the world," says "River Bishop" Ryan. "I am trying to show the Amazon peoples that God, at least, has not forgotten them." In the process, Dom Tiago, as most of his flock calls him, has contracted malaria six times and learned to relish monkey meat: "It tastes like chicken, if you shut your eyes...
...Mort Sahl takes as jaundiced a view of The New Frontier (Reprise) as he did of the old. He rakes Bobby Kennedy ("Little Brother is watching you"), Father Joe and Son Jack ("Judge Hardy and Andy"), and the crowds that flock to see Jack Kennedy every Sunday morning: "One of the disadvantages of his new job is that he has to get up and go to church." Kennedy's sponsored television broadcasts, says Sahl, put him into a peculiar predicament. "May I mention the United States?" the President asks his toothpaste sponsor. "No. That's a plug." Idly...