Word: pulpiteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many clergymen used the story as a text for sermons. Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike of California held up a copy of the magazine as he began a discussion of the subject from the pulpit of Manhattan's St. Thomas Church. Newspaper columnists and editorialists, radio and television commentators, religious and lay periodicals joined in the discussion. Malcolm Muggeridge devoted three columns to the subject in London's New Statesman. "Is TIME Dead?" was the title of a spoof in William Buckley's National Review. The Christian Century offered a tongue-in-cheek estimate that...
Hero meets villain in the small Mid-western town where Furber holds forth as the local yack-in-the-pulpit. "Both of Omensetter's hands reached for his hand, enclosing it like a worm in a fruit." Obsessed with envy, Furber spreads lies about Omensetter and even tries to persuade the townspeople that he has committed murder. In the end the reverend repents his persecution, but too late to preserve his reason, which drowns in a loud orange effluvium of emotion...
Foreman is worth every carat. Recently he took on a Houston father who had gunned down his stepdaughter's teen-age lover in plain view of witnesses. Foreman excoriated the dead sinner, hauled a church pulpit in front of the jury, delivered a sermon on teen-age vice, and tearfully recited a Sir Walter Scott poem about "pious fathers." The father was acquitted...
Serjeant Musgrave's Dance. Give some playwrights a stage and they turn it into a combination lecture platform and thundering pulpit. Scarcely bothering to dramatize their themes, they simply harangue the playgoer as if he were a retarded child or a calloused sinner...
...each of the four Masses in Eind hoven's Our Lady of the Rosary Church, Dutch Bishop Willem Bekkers mounted the pulpit to tell the parish some startling news: two of their priests were resigning from the ministry, and one of them was planning to marry a widow with five children...