Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...residents must inevitably make some jarring moral adjustments. Just that happened early this year in Pittsfield, Mass., when executives of General Electric (Pittsfield's biggest employer) were convicted of violating the antitrust laws (TIME, Feb. 17). In Christian Century, the Rev. Raymond E. Gibson, who then was pastor of Pittsfield's South Congregational Church, describes the resulting shock. It passed through several waves...
Like his famed predecessor, Reinhold Niebuhr, Bennett is a liberal with a somewhat acid view of the goodness of man. The son of a Presbyterian pastor in Morristown, N.J., he pointed for the ministry as an undergraduate at Williams, went on to Oxford for an A.B. in theology and to Union for his bachelor of divinity degree. He has spent his whole career teaching in seminaries, and has made "idolatrous" Communism his major study. In 1948 he published (and last year updated) the book for which he is best known: Christianity and Communism. He co-edits the liberal religious biweekly...
From working with such patients, Lutheran Pastor Granger E. Westberg of Chicago concluded: "The minister has his tongue tied by well-meaning relatives who insist that he never mention anything about death to the patient. The minister is held back from helping his parishioner in this moment of crisis. So the minister is forced to limit his conversation to the weather and the activities of the ladies' aid." Happily, said Pastor Westberg, more and more patients understand the nature of their illness and freely discuss their prognoses. They quickly come to the point with their pastors: "I know what...
...next generation's platitude. When Ibsen took syphilis as a topic in 1881, the subject was novel, courageous and scandalous. In the era of antibiotics, it will scarcely lift an eyebrow, let alone carry a play. Other Ibsen shockers also qualify as placid truisms today: that a pastor can be a sanctimonious fraud; that mothers sometimes love their sons not wisely but too well; that in Paris, artists and models sometimes live together unwed. What is far from dated is Ibsen's meticulous craftsmanship, his gift for probing character in depth, his passion for a morality that...
...MacGrath is a lightweight Mrs. Alving. Ibsen's Mrs. Alving is scoured to self-knowledge by the harsh uses of life; Actress MacGrath's Mrs. Alving is so much the sophisticated skeptic that events merely seem to confirm her suspicions. Modernity also mars Staats Cotsworth's Pastor Manders. He plays the hypocrite, but he is not, as Ibsen intended, a pious hypocrite...