Word: pulpit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swarthy, roughly dressed men carrying crowbars and bottles of gasoline. While dust still hung over the nearby Plaza de Mayo, bombed a few hours earlier, the men marched into the church. Within minutes, flames were consuming San Ignacio's great cedar altar and its historic, Indian-carved pulpit. At the same time, similar bands of men touched off other important churches. The lofty dome of the Basilica of San Francisco glowed red. Flames danced in the windows of the archbishop's palace next to the Metropolitan Cathedral (which was spared...
...Pulpit v. Pulps. Keith S. Sutton, a nationally known puzzle expert, set up the contest with the blessing of the Rev. Canon Albert J. duBois, general secretary of the A.C.U. The board's lone dissenter, the Rev. Charles H. Graf of Manhattan's St. John's Episcopal Church in the Village, objected to the puzzle initially because, he argued, contestants are encouraged by easy come-on puzzles until they reach "tiebreakers" that are "so prodigiously difficult that only experts can solve them...
...announcing the contest over the A.C.U.'s name were being placed in romance magazines (Life Romances, Romance Confessions), comic books (Lovers, My Own Romance, Diary Confessions), confidential magazines and other pulps with sexy or lurid themes and pictures. Shocked, he resigned from the A.C.U., took to his pulpit to condemn the contest as "barely legal, hardly legitimate and highly unethical...
...Very Rev. Dr. Hewlett Johnson, "Red Dean" of England's Canterbury Cathedral, has long managed to maintain a strict distinction between pulpit and soapbox. Last week, for the first time, the Red Dean decided to move his soapbox into church...
...idea was broached by Conference President Dr. Barnett R. Brickner of Cleveland, who cited women's "special spiritual and emotional fitness to be rabbis." But after prolonged debate, the Reform group decided not to follow the Northern Presbyterians (TIME, June 6) in putting women in the pulpit, and voted to defer the issue for at least a year. It would widen the gap between the Reform and the Conservative and Orthodox branches of Judaism, and, said Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof of Pittsburgh, would be "too great and too needless a break with tradition...