Word: pulpiteers
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...only brought us a greater volume of mail than any other article we ever printed-this week's Letters column presents a second large installment of that mail-but it is being talked about in newspapers, on the air, at formal and informal campus conferences, and in the pulpit. Comment ranged from the 9th Annual Layman's Leadership Institute in Houston to the satirical TV show That Was the Week That Was to a good-humored cartoon by Bill Mauldin portraying an unusually precocious reader of the article-which of course was addressed to a considerably older...
...stunted; basic good instincts went strangely awry; and some of America's best-known rogues had Irish names. James M. Curley had wit, verve, and a burning sense of social injustice, but hardly any sense of personal integrity. Father Charles Coughlin, broadcasting in a mellifluous baritone from his pulpit in Detroit, berated the callous bankers and businessmen who, he said, had brought on the Depression. But like Curley, Coughlin had no positive remedies; his Sunday sermons became exercises in slander. Before he was finally forced off the air by dwindling financial support, Coughlin was denouncing Jews and calling...
...change in the U.S. attitude toward sex mores has been developing gradually over a period of years. It made its appearance in books, theater, cinema, magazines, newspapers, television, the courts, on the campus-and even in the pulpit. Months ago, the editors of TIME decided that this development in U.S. life should be dealt with, fully and frankly, in a cover story...
...President Kennedy in a meeting later with King, "owes Bull Connor as much as it owes Abraham Lincoln." That was at best an oversimplification; nevertheless, because of Connor, the riots seared the front pages of the world press, outraged millions of people. Everywhere, King's presence, in the pulpit or at rallies, was demanded. But while he preached nonviolence, violence spread. "Freedom Walker" William Moore was shot and killed in Alabama. Mississippi's N.A.A.C.P. Leader Medgar Evers was assassinated outside his home. There was violence in Jackson, Miss...
...That Big Clown." Seeking well-known names for his pulpit, Glenesk has lured to Spencer speakers as different as Theologian Paul Tillich and India's agnostic ex-Defense Minister Krishna Menon. His own arts-conscious sermons are more likely to refer to Edward Albee than to Cain and Abel...