Word: layman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proud both of being a Catholic and of my Scottish blood, I deplore the disservice your correspondent, the Rev. Donald MacLeod, does to that honorable name in the March 11 issue. . . . His contemptuous "tin horns" of Catholicism is only to be answered by the response, "Shame!" Were he a layman I should reply, "The back-of me hand...
...emerged from retirement to defend Philosopher Bertrand Russell, who was first appointed to C.C.N.Y., then dismissed (on grounds that he was not of "moral character"). Cohen's essay on this "scandalous denial of justice" reflects both his intense enthusiasms and his considerable legal abilities. Though a layman, he has influenced Frankfurter and many another jurist. In his writings, he is as unsparing of friends like Holmes, Brandeis and Einstein as he is of his enemies...
...Catholic Layman Alfred E. Smith could flatly endorse "equality of all Churches, all sects and all beliefs before the law as a matter of right and not as a matter of favor. I believe in the absolute separation of Church and State." Even those who safeguard their orthodoxy most carefully need not believe that Church and State, though their union be a Christian ideal sub specie aeternitatis, can be prudently wed until the final earthly triumph of the City of God-which may perhaps arrive just before Judgment...
From knob head to lion feet, Benediction's brutal, bulbous charms were probably lost on the average layman. Most frequent questions by museumgoers: "Is it harping or scratching?" "Why has it got three legs?" If its sculptor, 54-year-old Jacques Lipchitz, had been there to explain, he would have told them that what looks like a third leg is really a simplified drapery...
Voice of the Layman. No artist, scientist or professor is dark, energetic David Silberman, born 49 years ago on Manhattan's teeming lower East Side. David Silberman is a man with a flair for developing machinery. President of the Cap-Tin Development Corp., he employs 75 to 100 people and makes about $1,000,000 worth of zippers per year in 10,000 square feet of space at 578 Broadway...