Word: pulpiteering
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...English poems of the Romantic Movement. Be prefers the short ones, and a few pieces of Wordsworth. Keats, he showed, was attaining a higher criterion for poetical values. Be indicated passages in Keat's letters, which more than anything else, show this romanticist to have outgrown the pulpit type of poetry. Mr. Eliot differed with Keats on the latter's pronouncement that Beauty is Truth and vice versa. "No one will deny that much truth is ugly," he said...
...than a clergyman errant, about to be unfrocked. From his embarrassing plight the pious eye is usually averted, but a congregation in Muncie, Ind. last week found this impossible. As Sunday evening service was about to begin, 50 people sat uneasily in Madison Street Methodist Episcopal Church. Behind the pulpit stood their 55-year-old pastor. Rev. G. Lemuel Conway, tall, spare, grim-faced, with lank grey locks falling over his high forehead and gold teeth glinting between thin lips. That morning Mr. Conway had announced that Willard F. Aurand, the choirmaster, would not be present for the evening services...
Fortnight ago a succession of lush, heavily framed portraits passed across the stage of the American Art Association-Anderson Galleries. In the mannerly, well dressed crowd fingers snapped and pencils rose actively, and from his pulpit Auctioneer Otto Bernet bounced prices up $1,000 at a time. For Sir Thomas Lawrence's huge canvas of Mrs. Raikes and Daughter, an agent paid the top price of the sale, $17,100. A Van Dyck, a Raeburn, a Gainsborough, a Romney each fetched more than $10,000. All told, 74 canvases brought $286,100 in cash. To the uninitiated it sounded...
People who are accustomed to think of New York's Bishop William Thomas Manning as an extremely formal, frigidly aristocratic little prelate would have been amazed to behold him last Sunday morning. His pulpit was a footstool, set up amid shavings, lumber, scaffolding, tarpaulins, in a little Harlem church. His sermon was a fighting talk. His congregation of 250, pressing close upon him, was three-quarters Negro...
...Smacking more often of Aladdin's than the student's lamp. The Shadow Flies offers the reader a rich mouthful of a spicy age. Parson-Poet Robert Herrick's Devonshire parish (1640) is the first scene, with the parson cursing his parishioners by name from the pulpit, wining with his London friend Sir John Suckling, tutoring pretty young Julian Conybeare, the atheist doctor's daughter. Julian's father falls foul of the law when he tries to protect an old woman from the witch-finders; he and Julian and Parson Herrick take a tactical holiday...