Word: pulpiteering
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...sacristy of Perugia's 4th century church of San Domenico last week, portraits of four Popes looked down on theatrical make-up men applying wigs and beards. Outside, photographers crowded into the pulpit. On a wooden stage below them, flanked by a large orchestra and chorus, a troupe of 50 dancers went through the first performance of Leonide Massine's Laudes Evangelii, a ballet "mystery play" depicting the story of Christ...
...from 1902 until he left Harvard in 1912. I remember his as a brilliant teacher who gave polished lectures but also enjoyed informal meeting with his students in the rooms which he than occupied on the corner of Brattle and Hilliard Streets. When he left Cambridge I inherited the pulpit desk before which he was accustomed to stand when he wrote...
...interesting comment on the state of religion in this country that this film has been hailed as a "milestone" and endorsed from the pulpit by an Archbishop's letter...
...well as certain moral freedoms generally overlooked in the rest of Spain. A year ago, during serious anti-government strikes in the Basque provinces, Spanish bishops were warning priests to tell the people that such striking was a mortal sin. One of Aranzazu's Franciscans, speaking from the pulpit, countered: "The right to strike without violence is a right granted by God as one of man's natural freedoms...
Democratic Presidential Candidate Adlai Stevenson sat and listened to a stout defense of himself from the pulpit of the Springfield, Ill. Presbyterian Church. Departing from the Scripture to comment on current events, the Rev. Richard Graebel thundered that Republican Senator Everett Dirksen's statement that Stevenson was the worst Illinois governor of the 20th century was "a blatant lie." Said Pastor Graebel later: he was not aware that the governor was in his church...