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...said also that he would never use the vice presidency as a "pulpit" from which to condemn the administration...

Author: By Jonathan T. Davis, | Title: Agnew to Resign if Nixon Implicated | 4/26/1973 | See Source »

...Marshalls, quietly seated the crowds. The crowd applauded several times: when the National orchestra members entered and began to tune up: when Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass). Sargent Shriver, and Averell Harriman arrived; and finally when Francis B. Sayre, Jr., dean of the Washington Cathedral, walked to the pulpit...

Author: By E.j. Dionne and Dorothy A. Lindsay, S | Title: Demonstrators Face Nixon: Two Worlds in Washington | 1/29/1973 | See Source »

...energies of transcendence," and turned into that modern monstrosity, "intellect divorced of its visionary powers." According to the Roszak bill of particulars, Christianity bears a heavy share of the blame. It excluded other myths in the name of one myth. It tended to abstract God into the Word: the pulpit crowded out the altar. Protestantism especially stripped man of "the inarticulate wisdom of the instincts," preparing the way for the Scientific Revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Arcadia Revisited | 9/11/1972 | See Source »

...serious is Maddox about his witnessing that he went to his Midland appearance only hours after getting out of a hospital, where he had been treated for pulled ligaments and scrapes suffered in a bicycle accident during a Georgia Jaycee parade. Once in the pulpit, he limbered up quickly: "We hear a lot about not mixing government and religion. Well, I think the intent of our forefathers was to keep government out of the church. But don't keep God's people out of government. I'm not politicking, but I am campaigning-I'm campaigning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Campaigning for God | 8/21/1972 | See Source »

...CRIME. "We see it in print, hear it from the pulpit, from Marxist socialist professors, that people commit crime because they're underprivileged. I went to school barefoot in the snow and ice, [but] I didn't shoot a policeman. I didn't hold up any store. You commit [crime] because of sin in your life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Campaigning for God | 8/21/1972 | See Source »

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