Word: preacher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conference on black power, told the New York Times: "There was only one man who could have walked on Springfield Avenue and said, 'Brothers, cool it.' That was Malcolm X. We have no such leaders now. Whitey doesn't understand this. Some little Negro pork chop preacher who is hustling pot and girls in a storefront church goes to city hall and gets all sorts of promises. That's not grass-roots leadership, but Whitey thinks he's dealing with responsible Negroes...
...Bruce Barton once said. There was one thing about Barton himself that never changed - his faith in spunk, selfhelp, salesmanship, sloganeering, America. That faith, given wide circulation through his uplift books, his catchy advertising copy, and his cheer fully uncomplicated politics, made Barton, son of a circuit-riding Tennessee preacher, one of the great evangelists of his day. From World War I until last week, when he died in Manhattan at 80, he remained an unspoiled and influential American optimist...
...Sissified Lamb. Hard work and evangelism came readily to Barton. His father, an itinerant Congregationalist preacher before settling in an Oak Park, Ill, parish, raised his five children on the King James Bible. At 9, Barton was out delivering newspapers. He worked his way through Amherst by selling pots and pans, graduated in the midst of the 1907 panic and eventually turned to magazine writing and editing. A prolific contributor to such periodicals as Redbook and McCall's, he specialized in inspirational articles that were scorned by critics as simplistic pap but had enormous popular appeal...
...dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in London-"the parish church of the British Empire"-has traditionally been a preacher of scholarship and fire. Humanist John Colet, who held the post from 1505 to 1519, was the learned friend of Erasmus and More. John Donne, during the reign of James I, uttered sermons from St. Paul's pulpit that will ring in human ears as long as the bell tolls for mankind. From 1911 to 1934, Anglicanism's most prestigious preaching office was occupied by "the Gloomy Dean," William Ralph Inge, who outraged England with his then...
...with Cassius Clay. He's been faced by the new theology, the new morality, church reunion, liturgical reform. I think the church is in danger of leaving him in the lurch." Sullivan considers his new post "a sort of Eisenhower job as chairman of a team"; as a preacher, he presumably intends to see that none of the team members are left behind...