Word: pulpiteering
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...know what I believe any more." The scene is made all the more poignant since we have been seeing what he does put his faith in. He is a potent tippler of sparkling burgundy and relishes his Mercedes. With Gaelic guile he manipulates parish politics from his pulpit. He does not so much preach to his flock as poll it. What his parishioners want to hear, he tells them. He salves the consciences he was pledged to arouse. In the sad coldness of his heart, he knows all this...
Fraser, a tall, roughhewn man who began his union career while loading fenders for Chrysler in a De Soto plant in 1935, has a broad view of his new job. He intends to use his seat as a "pulpit of advocacy." In an unusual statement to Chrysler shareholders in this year's proxy statement, Fraser said he plans an active part in discussions on nearly all topics, including worker health and safety, plant closings, new products and major investments. But he says that he will not participate in any company discussions on pay negotiations. Says Fraser: "I believe...
...humid evening air. They overflowed from the pews onto folding chairs; they stood on windowsills, squeezed into doorways and gathered in the street outside. Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church had not seen such a festive crowd since the days when Adam Clayton Powell Jr. sounded forth from the pulpit. Last week the pulpit had given way to a specially built wooden stage, and what sounded forth was the New York Philharmonic...
...years. Amy Gutman is superb as Sarah--her loyalty is icily cold rather than fervent. Gutman knows that a calm, reticent fanatic is far more unsettling than a fiery one. When she asks the children "Did you think of God, today?" she's not Billy Graham screaming from the pulpit, but a clear-eyed Moonie confronting you in Times Square. As Sarah's children die one by one, Gutman's horror never becomes repetitive but intensifies with every torturous shock, making her transformation to a bitter atheist wholly believable and her cry to J.B., "Curse...
...devil's playground. This year they are plunging in, too, borrowing methods and single-issue zeal that religious and secular liberals have applied to racial equality, women's rights, the environment and the Viet Nam War. Their booming religious TV and radio circuit provides a "bully" pulpit for exploring moral issues. The effect on a close presidential race could be crucial...