Word: parson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is a Bible for every taste, or lack thereof: Bibles bound in denim and hand-tooled leather, translations in street slang, Bible comic books, Bible cartoon videos and seventy times seven other gimmicky editions. Now, for the parson who has everything, here comes the ultimate in modern packaging: the Electronic Bible. This is not a new translation but a hand-held computer containing the entire scriptural text in either the King James or the Revised Standard Version. The item, manufactured by New Jersey-based Franklin Computer, will go on sale in selected retail outlets next week. Price...
...abandoning his extensively planned future: his post in the service of the British governor of Australia, which will in time bring him back to England, election to Parliament from his godfather's "rotten borough" and prospective glories beyond. And to throw all that away, he reminds himself, for a "parson's penniless daughter!" But the Alcyone is gone the next morning, and Marion with her. Talbot wakes up, hung over yet drunk with infatuation, to face the alarming likelihood that the ship carrying him toward his appointed destination will sink...
Many a Protestant parson caught up in scandal has quietly been found guilty by an ecclesiastical panel and has then slipped from view. But last week a double defrocking was proclaimed to the world by the national head of the ministers' denomination. The ousted preachers are Jim Bakker, who confessed to adultery last March and then gave up his multimillion-dollar PTL television network and theme park at Fort Mill, S.C., and his former top executive, Richard Dortch, who was accused of orchestrating a cover-up of Bakker's lapse...
...human behavior. Their contributions to mobilizing the country's young men and maintaining the nation's enthusiasm for its effort were appreciated by those involved and academics were impressed by the potential benefits of interdisciplinary study. In 1946, the country, or at least Harvard, had caught up to Parson's insurgents. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences gave the go-ahead for a new department calling it Social Relations...
When we were very young, we learned that George Washington had confessed to chopping down a cherry tree because he couldn't tell a lie; we were still young when we learned that Parson Weems had propagated this little tale in an effort to edify the youth of the new nation, that the chocolate hatchets sold in candy stores on Feb. 22 were all part of the commercial exploitation of legend...