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...urbane man who is a florid phrasemaker in four languages and a onetime movie actor (he played Shirley Temple's father in The Little Colonel), Lodge had been angling for the gubernatorial nomination until Bush's announcement...
...that's where the fruit is. If it breaks, you learn how far to go next time." Another top-ten award winner that year was Tennessee's Frank Clement, then the youngest state Governor in the U.S., later famous in a way for his florid keynote speech ("How long, O how long?") at the 1956 Democratic Convention. With many similarities of temperament and style, Clement and Estes became fast friends...
...suburbs as in city, storefront congregations tend to be small in size, distrustful of "worldliness" and "heresies" in mainstream Protestantism, ardent in their faith, and embellished with such florid names as Faith and Miracle Tabernacle or Church of the Living God. Few of them have fulltime ministers. Church services emphasize oldtime hymns and sermons that pound home a basic Gospel message of Christ's saving grace. There is little or no liturgy. "We feel that all this rising and reading confuses the issue,'' says Pastor Delamarian. "Our message is simple: Have you been saved...
...Maria of Josquin des Pres was considerably better. Elliot Forbes blended the voices with a skill that made Josquin's simple lines shimmer with restrained feeling. When florid melodies did appear, as on the tricky words Nostra Glorificatio, their rhythm and diction were superb...
...first question about a new minister for its church is likely to be: "Is he a good preacher?" Good or bad, today's minister is sure to be a different preacher from the ones his father heard. Like the U.S. itself, the sermon is in permanent revolution. The florid. Bible-based oratory of the 19th century-has largely disappeared from the pulpit-and so has most of the exhortatory preaching based on the "social gospel" that urged man to make God his partner in correcting economic and social evil. Even the familiar "life situation" sermon, with its emphasis upon...