Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early in life, Joao Café Filho was exposed to influences that were to set him apart from most of his countrymen. Brazil is a Roman Catholic nation, but Joao's parents were devout members of the flock of the Rev. William Porter, a Presbyterian missionary from the U.S. Cafe Filho was baptized in a Presbyterian chapel,* learned to read and write in the free elementary school maintained by Porter and his wife. Joao's first teachers were Henrietta and Evangeline Green, daughters of the U.S. vice consul in Natal...
After the Sunday morning service at Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, the boys of the congregation would escape from their parents, if they could, and play as boisterously as was possible on a Presbyterian Sunday in the 1880s. But one of them had his own kind of Sunday game. Over a set of kitchen steps he would drape one of his mother's shawls. Then he would mount his make-believe pulpit and preach...
Fish & Sanctity. The first church that young Dr. Coffin took over (he was fresh out of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary) was near a Bronx fish market; in time, "the odor of sanctity overcame the odor of fish." Later, he moved to the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church. When he found that the church maintained a chapel for poorer parishioners who could not afford to rent pews in the church proper, Dr. Coffin closed the chapel, abolished the pew rents and merged the two congregations. He often took a portable organ to tenement districts to hold services for workers...
...somehow in the end the dragon poops out and our knight wins." He glibly switched metaphors to tick off one of democracy's own current ailments: to him, Senator Joseph McCarthy may be viewed without hysterical wailing, as "a bad skin disease, rather than a cancer." Inevitably, onetime Presbyterian Parson Thomas reflected on the day-dreamy luxury of turning back the clock: "I am not such an idiot as to say that if I had my life to live over again I would not change it some, but I would not change the main lines. I might have gone...
...Science fiction, with its flying saucers and its legions of Martian midgetmen, has just about monopolized the literature of fantasy. But two new books roll out the old-fashioned magic carpet. The Visionary Novels of George Macdonald (containing two stories, Lilith and Phantasies) are by a 19th century Scottish Presbyterian who deserted the pulpit for the pen, and The Fellowship of the Ring is by J.R.R. Tolkien, a pipe-smoking, 20th century Oxford philology professor. Both books are fashioned as fairy tales for adults, and fueled by strong and unorthodox imaginations...