Word: preacher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those occasions when the author is laughing at the South, she is casual, succinct and totally unpicturesque. An earnest revival preacher loses his audience after a child asks to have his mother cured of a hangover. There are ugly girls with names like Glynese or Carramae and crones like Mrs. Freeman of Good Country People, who "beside the neutral expression that she wore when she was alone had two others, forward and reverse...
...Charles P. Price '41, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and preacher to the University, said yesterday that he had decided to discard Memorial Church's long standing, all-male tradition because "I am anxious to increase the scope of the ministry, and that seemed the obvious...
Inside, Nixon spoke to an audience of 5,000 that included civic and labor Pooh-Bahs but was dominated by businessmen. The President noted that he was rather "like the preacher talking to the choir." Members of the choir liked the President's sermon-and no wonder. It put stress on protecting domestic industry and boosting profits...
Rabbi Riskin is a charismatic speaker, flexing his voice like a Bible Belt preacher, punctuating his ideas with his hands. He is also a widely respected Talmudic scholar who stresses that the most important function of the synagogue is to be a Bet Midrash-a "house of study." More than 250 people regularly jam his weekly class on Jewish Law and its application to such modern problems as contraception, prison reform and war. But concern, not relevance, is probably the ultimate key to Riskin's appeal. "The ministry must create a community of people whom the rabbi cares about...
...answer lies in further examination, and one begins to see that Black John is at once street corner pimp, southern creole preacher and medicine show hustler. One who will use any means to achieve his ends. He is the Hootchie Coochie Man, the boastful con-artist who walks on guilded splinters and sees everything...