Word: merriams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stirred up a fuss that threatens to shake the entire church. By a vote of 73 to 27, the presbytery-exercising its power to intervene in hiring-firing matters that are normally left to congregations and their elders-voted to oust Broadway's minister, the Rev. Stuart Merriam, 38. Also removed from office were the church's ten pro-Merriam elders, who were replaced by a presbytery-appointed commission. Merriam was asked to remove his personal belongings from the church-and even to refrain from attending Sunday services there. A substitute preacher-Dr. Paul Franklin Hudson, formerly...
...theology seemed to be at the heart of the presbytery's action, the immediate cause was the personality of lean, intense Stuart Merriam. Born in Schenectady, Merriam, a bachelor, graduated from Toronto's Knox College and acquired a doctorate from New College in Edinburgh. His first call, in 1957, was to the First Presbyterian Church of Portsmouth, Va., a rundown, impoverished church with a congregation of 500. Merriam doubled the church's property, added 100 parishioners to the congregation, put on an impressive range of new youth activities-and began to create a reputation for unorthodoxy. Although...
...scale ranging from James Thurber's dry comment on newspapers' tendency to merge ("One day there is going to be just one newspaper and the whole front page will have to be devoted to the name") to an exhaustive reprise of the recent press row over Merriam-Webster's new dictionary (which gives respectability to such vulgarisms...
...heirs sold the rights to Printers George and Charles Merriam of Springfield, Mass., but the Merriams failed to get sole right to Webster's name, which is now in the public domain -hence the modern multiplicity of "Webster's" dictionaries...
Indestructible Bones. Whenever word watchers spotted a new usage, editors filled out a "citation slip"-6,200,000 in all-to record its frequency and nuances. Words that got enough "cits" (pronounced sites) were discussed with 'Merriam's 200 outside consultants, who cover every field, from Knots and Logic. Mosses and Liverworts, to Cocktails and Girl Guiding. Their expert opinion clarified each new definition...