Word: nonconformists
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...Church of the Annunciation in London), thought differently. Many ministers in the Church of South India were not ordained validly in the beginning, they argued. Furthermore, ordinations performed by the 13 Episcopally consecrated bishops of C.S.I, since 1947 are also invalid because the bishops were in communion with nonconformist clergymen. The Annunciationists also charged that the C.S.I, refused to accept the Christian creeds in entirety, pointed to a clause in the C.S.I, constitution in proof: "The uniting churches accept the fundamental truths embodied in the creeds . . . but do not intend thereby to demand the assent of individuals to every word...
...trying to clean up the homosexual theme in Tea and Sympathy by making the young hero-who suffers doubts about his manhood-simply "offbeat," i.e., nonconformist. However, Cinemactress Deborah Kerr is already reported as saying that she will walk out on the picture if the consummation scene with the hero is not left...
...What, positively, is needed to re-evangelize Britain? ... It will be no use to stifle debate . . . That will merely leave people in the fading twilight of religiosity in which they are stranded already. We have got to get them arguing . . . The great days of the Nonconformist chapels and of the splits among Presbyterians in Scotland must come back-the days when, as still happens in parts of Wales, it seemed as natural to drop into an argument over theology as over the Test Match. The first step towards this is to get people to think out their own present position...
...kept the local journals happy. In the St. Louis Zoo, Harry, the resident hippopotamus, became famous overnight last summer for his aristocratic distemper. It all started when the Zoo decided it would repaint the cages. The work went smoothly until the painters began work on Harry's cage. A nonconformist, Harry never liked crowds, and he didn't like the painters, the paint, or the whole operation. It upset his delicate psyche bringing on a three ton sulk and positive loss of appetite. Zoo officials, frantic at the prospect of Harry's demise, called off the painters...
...perfect contrast to the forbidding Cross personality was the winning way of Ed Muskie, who toured the state three times in a handshaking Maine-Street campaign, and-a Catholic himself-managed to find a way to weld together the French-Catholic and the Yankee nonconformist Democrats...