Word: pulpiteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Officially known as the Plummer Professorship of Christian Morals, the post has lain open for three years. During this time visiting preachers and an acting minister, the Rev. R. Jerrold Gibson, have filled the pulpit. It has been rumored that a new University preacher may be appointed by President Pusey sometime this spring...
...much as mention Ghana, but Nkrumah's terrible-tempered press was quick to take offense. Adding a new phrase to the already rich vocabulary of invective, the Accra Evening News branded the bishop as a "vicious insinuationist," warned that unless he stops his "utter misuse of the pulpit, we shall have no alternative than to accept the gauntlet"-that is, to throw him out again...
...wire and Verboten signs. In Ireland, where onetime SS Hero Otto Skorzeny now raises prizewinning lambs, the clergy has even tried to persuade farmers that it is "patriotic" not to sell their land. One indignant priest, who had twice been chased off a German-owned beach, complained from the pulpit: "Has the day really come when an Irishman can't go for a swim in his own sea?" In tiny Ticino, Switzerland's only Italian-speaking canton, worried citizens formed a militantly anti-German outfit called D.D.T. (for Difesa del Ticino). But despite a new law screening...
...Carolina, the first (1795) state university to open its doors. Chapel Hill boasts "something in the air" that inspires purpose. In part, the spur is natural beauty: a town built around a tree-shaded oasis of ivied Georgian buildings on 552 acres. Alumnus Thomas Wolfe ('20) fondly described "Pulpit Hill" in Look Homeward, Angel as "a provincial outpost of great Rome: the wilderness crept up to it like a beast...
...Council of Churches, which still owns the RSV's copyright and last year collected $190,000 in royalties on its sales, began looking around for additional publishers. Of the five new firms, only Philadelphia's A. J. Holman Co. will battle Nelson in the field of expensive pulpit Bibles. The other companies all claim to have some feature all to themselves...