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...resounding babble of glossalalia" can still be heard-evidence that neither drive-in movies nor television has "diminished the appeal that uninhibited religious exhibitions have as popular entertainment." One Cumberland mountaineer told Caldwell: "I always go to church on Sundays to get my soul saved like the preacher says. He can shout good and loud and I'm satisfied that's the best kind...
PUPLIC opinion is not the only explanation for the deans' hyperactivity. They want their students to dress modestly and attend church regularly. The dean of men, a Baptist lay preacher, chided Radcliffe tutors for wearing "shorty-short skirts." Unless his eyes were deceiving him, he told us, Shaw girls' hems had risen since we came. If anything, his tone was apologetic: he seemed only to be expanding on Southern Baptist morality in an attempt to outshine the white middle-class variety...
Price, who is Preacher to the University and an ex-officio member of the Ministry, will work with the group on the counseling project...
Much the same could be said of Daniel Poling. The son of an Evangelical minister, he was born in Portland, Ore., accepted his first call as a preacher at a United Evangelical church in Canton, Ohio, in 1905. From then on, his life as a minister of the Gospel and a servant of man were inextricably interwoven. During the '20s, he was probably the nation's most popular radio preacher, and for eight years he was pastor of Manhattan's prestigious Marble Collegiate Church-a post now held by his friend and disciple, Norman Vincent Peale. Poling...
Arthur Miller in The Price has written a museum piece of a play to match the set. In form, substance and attitude, his newest drama is vintage 1930s. Always inclined to use the theater as a preacher's pulpit, Miller sermonizes on his favorite themes: guilt, responsibility, and the way a man's identity is forged or warped by society's image of what he is or what he should be. In structure, though not in content, the central situation-the sibling rivalry of two brothers and their relationship to their father-somewhat resembles Miller...