Word: parson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From a poem. by the Rev. George Crabbe, a 19th-Century English parson-poet, Librettist Montagu Slater had fashioned a psychopathic case history of a sadistic Suffolk fisherman. The first scene is an inquest into the murder of Peter Grimes's boy apprentice. Peter Grimes is exonerated, but the townspeople-fishermen, harlots and scowling drunks-still suspect him and set out to persecute him. Peter takes another apprentice to work for him, and the second boy dies in an accident. The villagers hold Peter responsible and drive him out to sea to drown himself. The score is Mozartian...
...serve Boston's Unitarian First Church until the congregation could find the right man. Charles E. Park, an India-born missionary's son, was sure his new post would be only temporary-for one thing, he did not even hold a Bachelor of Divinity degree. But humble Parson Park proved to be exactly the "right man" for his church. Today he is recognized as the Grand Old Man of U.S. liberal pulpits...
...provincial circuit, adopted a cautious politician's line. He told disgruntled Tories that their best hope for a return to power was not to commit themselves to a program but to widen the party's field "and bring in all who want free progress." "Like the parson who was against sin." he said, "I am against Socialism. . . . The great conflict to come will be fundamentally a conflict between God and the anti-Christ." His audiences applauded the generalities, but were not satisfied. "It's not good enough," said one young lady listener. "We want something more concrete...
Unlike St. Paul, however, TSM has green eyes, greying brown hair, a deceptively formidable exterior, and an indestructible appetite for good celery, good tennis, and good English prose. A parson's son (his father is the retired Episcopal Bishop of New Jersey), he came to TIME via Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was born, Princeton (A.B.), Oxford (B.A.), and an associate editorship of the New Republic. Father of four (boys), he is a soft touch for his family, but a "hard" man with his staff-especially with novice writers and researchers who haven't learned that erudition and journalism...
Then Dr. Mildon went fast into a short sermon. Its catch phrase: "New men for a new world." "And now," concluded the parson, "please join me in a short prayer." He prayed in simple, informal language, thanked God for the safe return of servicemen and hoped for the spiritual safety of mankind...