Word: pulpit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play does not even do justice to her extraordinary obsessing family. There was her father, old Lyman Beecher, bellowing salvation from his pulpit. There was her brother Henry Ward, heaving fashionable bricks from his. There were six other preacher brothers, a whalebone-and-woman's rights sister Catherine, an empty-pursed absent-minded professor of a husband, a batch of noisy kids. Uncle Tom, according to the play, got written with the house all Topsy-turvy. In the midst of Harriet's fame, cooks fired up and gave notice, a son got wounded in the war his mother...
Here is a truly extraordinary book, a one-man five-ring verbal circus, a phantasmagoria of wit, satire, irony, invective, diatribe, rhetoric, and pulpit oratory. The style is variously compounded of elements from Sterne, Carlyle, Swift, H. L. Mencken, and the book of Jeremiah. Yet, appearing now at a time of national introspection and moral house-cleaning, it should be a valuable book, entirely aside from its qualities as pure entertainment. Wylie claims to have been breathing the same brand of fire for the last twenty or so years, predicting the future importance of bombing and the black-hearted intentions...
...Richmond Times-Dispatch: "The woman's back and hips are poorly portrayed." Said Artist Binford: "When and how did this bishop become an authority on the 'backs and hips' of nude women? Scat, Bishop! Get off my scaffold. I am not trying to swarm your pulpit." Result: his mural is still in the sketch stage...
This folk culture was rich in music; most of it was "applied [religious and political] music." It was rich in verse; most of it was "practical letters," along with the lively related arts of "oratory, pulpit eloquence and pamphleteering." It was rich in symbolism, which "tends to dominate folk expression." It was rich also in a sense of evil. The Salem witch burnings were "cumulative folk-obsessions." Jonathan Edwards "induced tortuous introspections." Charles Wesley and the "dark fire" of his fellow Methodist, George Whitefield, kept the nation incandescent with revivalism for a generation. Calvinism, a scientific bent and poverty, gave...
...voices of the announcers are seldom natural, casual, human. Here is a solemn pulpit voice, preaching of clogged sinuses; here is a maniac with a congenital megaphone; here is baby talk, about as cute as a dwarf in diapers...