Word: propheteers
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...Peale's syrupy, Coué-ed Christianity is an increasing disgrace to American Protestantism ... It reduces the Creator of Heaven and Earth to an aspirin tablet. Shame on the National Council of Churches for losing so much integrity in sponsoring this prettified prophet...
...bells of Beirut's churches clang so loudly that good Moslems groan and cover their heads. At dawn on other mornings, the muezzins chant their calls to prayer over loudspeaker-equipped minarets, to the annoyance of sleepy Christians. Last week Muled el Nebi, the birthday of the Prophet Mohammed, rolled around. Moslems festooned Beirut in palm branches and garlands of electric lights. The climax was to be a torchlight parade...
...appointment was predicted yesterday by Paul A. Freund, Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of International Law, who said, "If I were making a bet, I'd place it on Harlan." Last night, he added that "a prophet is always glad to be vindicated. It has every promise of turning out to be an excellent selection. Judge Harlan is very well regarded by both the bar and judges in New York...
...looking at the U.S. which is more presently fruitful than older conceptions such as the class struggle or the frontier v. the seaboard. At the very least, Riesman answers the anguished city editor who cried: "What we need around this place is a new set of cliches." No mantled prophet with the last word or the definitive system, Riesman describes his notion of character as "heuristic"-and that is the word for Riesman. It means, says Webster, "serving to discover or to stimulate investigation; -of methods of demonstration which tend to lead a person to investigate further by himself...
...only to bring these messages that the Prophet had journeyed to New York, along with four valets, four bodyguards, three secretaries, cook, dietician, housekeeper, hairdresser, three musicians and 60 singers. He had also hired Manhattan's Carnegie Hall for an evening service. Admission...