Word: reverend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...younger son, Brick, is an ex-athlete fallen into alcoholism, who refuses to become involved with anyone, including his wife Maggie. She is thus not only sexually frustrated and childless but, born into poverty, also fearful of losing the wealth into which she married. On the sidelines is the Reverend Tooker, a local clergyman adept at sniffing a fat bequest for a church memorial...
...soil almost entirely to the land grant colleges. What this situation generally produces is not that the essential information about the earth's challenge to man is not available (though some of it is not), but that the simplicity and straightforwardness with which it is taught, as the Reverend Peter Gomes of Memorial Church recently pointed out, "frequently are understood to be the same as stupidity and naivete" on this campus; there just hasn't been time to cloak all the basics in the accustomed layers of sophistication and obliquity. Obviously, the student at times may come out ahead...
...rich suburb of Barrington Hills. They don't go down to Cicero and mingle with the blue-collar workers." The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, once jokingly reprimanded a black doctor from Detroit for driving a Rolls-Royce. Responded the doctor: "Reverend, I said I would help the poor. I didn't say I was going to be poor...
...innocent reformers of trying to subvert the American republic. Arthur Miller's The Crucible gave this perspective its most eloquent convincing and popular expression, dramatically pitting John Proctor, the skeptical but self-respecting hero who would not save his life by making a false confession, against people like the Reverend Samuel Parris, who "believed he was being persecuted wherever he went," cutting a "villainous" and bloodstained path into the history books...
...Harvard, that might as well be Gospel. The Stendahl Committee, formed at the suggestion of Reverend Price upon his retirement in 1972, has advised President Bok in a controversial report to dismantle the current one-minister church and replace it with a three-denominational system...