Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been playing partisan politics, while Mr. Nixon has been pushing Pepsi-Cola, and while Mr. Scranton has been patiently standing pat in Pennsylvania, Lodge has been busy doing the job that must be done. He has been practicing Americanism in Saigon while others have been content merely to preach it in the suburbs...
...publishers seldom try to get Spellman's imprimatur on anything more controversial than the life of an Irish saint, and there is an undercurrent of complaint from young priests about the steady-as-you-go conservatism of chancery decrees. Says one Manhattan curate: "It's easier to preach about socialism in New York than to advocate liturgical reform...
Spare & Witty. Kennedy believes that a bishop should be a teacher as well as an administrator, and just about every Sunday of the year he finds a vacant pulpit to preach from. His sermons are a far cry from the stem-winding exercises in dour purple prose that 19th century congregations loved. His language is spare and unchurchy, larded with wit and timely references to the secular world around him. Yet his message is always related more to eternal truths than to the morning's headlines...
...Syria's merchants and landowners, worried by Baath's militantly socialist program of nationalization and land reform. Hafez replied: "Allah alone knows who are atheists, and will punish them." The Baath regime in neighboring Iraq was toppled last fall, but in Syria the Baathists continued to preach class war, pitting workers, peasants and the army against everyone else. Early this month, Baath expropriated all landholdings over 25 acres and nationalized six of the country's largest corporations...
...makes orderly, symbolic art. "I grew up amid action painters," he explains, "and my reaction to all that is symmetry-order in a very strange world." Now teaching a course at New York University and co-director of the School of Visual Arts, he has a chance to preach what he practices. "People are no longer interested in what Mr. Green says to Mr. Red," says he of abstract expressionism, so he began making constructions that, at their onset, look like Playskool peg toys (see opposite page). Like Matisse, his favorite artist of the past 50 years...