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However it got going, a vogue for half-moon spectacles-also known to the trade as pulpit glasses and half-eyes -is lending a new mien to the far-sighted across the U.S. People of all ages and walks of life are popping up in demi-cheaters. "We used to sell about two pairs a month," says Milwaukee Optician James Shofner. "These days, we sell at least a pair...
Annie's incorrigible tendency to climb soapboxes has earned her a host of real-life enemies to match those who pursue her on the funny page. She has been castigated by the pulpit, educators, the National Lawyers Guild, and the American Association of Advertising Agencies. In 1956, an episode that seemed to glorify hoodlumism drew such a loud chorus of protest that some 30 newspapers suspended the strip. The high crime rate in Little Orphan Annie periodically produces other defectors...
...those who tried "to help his victims, or just to defend their beliefs." While the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches were both ingloriously compliant, many individual churchmen in particular were outspoken foes of the regime. Clemens Cardinal von Galen of Miinster denounced the Nazis' euthanasia program from the pulpit, halting, at least for a time, the mass murder of feeble-minded and spastic children. After calling upon his congregation to pray for the Jews, Father Bernhard Lichtenberg, dean of Berlin's St. Hedwig Cathedral, was sent to his death at Dachau. The gifted Protestant theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer joined...
...From the pulpit where he stood one day last week, Richard James Cardinal Cushing, 68, looked down not at the familiar Irish faces of his own Boston congregation but rather into the docile and questioning gaze of brown Peruvian eyes. The occasion was the blessing of a new brick-and-concrete Roman Catholic church in a slum suburb of Lima...
Folliard dutifully did so, and Johnson was waiting in his best pulpit manner. "Well," he said, "I do not believe that any issue which is before the people can be eliminated from the campaign in a free society in an election year ... I believe that all men and women are entitled to equal opportunities so that they may be judged according to their merits and not according to some artificial barriers. Now, to the extent that Senator Goldwater differs from these views, or the Republican Party differs, there will, of course, be discussion. And I intend to carry on some...