Word: reverend
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...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...
...Steve McQueen in Papillon or the decadence of Holiday and Ramada Inns littering the countryside, his pleasant voice seems ready to burst at any moment into joyful music. And, in any Gomes service, it frequently yields to the temptation. Though he once wanted little from churches besides the music, Reverend Gomes has emerged as the right man for Memorial Church in a troubled era that seems to hold only wrong times...
...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...
BEHIND HIS HOUSE, the Reverend Harper, a cracker-barrel oracle in the best tradition, has a little lean-to grocery. He is in his eighties and is well-known and respected for preaching at a different church each Sunday somewhere around the country. He is a type you have met before, in one account or another, or at least he seems to be. He is "always glad to talk to you;" he is full of wisdom...
...first encountered the Reverend one dusty day when we needed something cool to drink. He was napping on the bench in front of the grocery, fishing cap down over age-browned eyes. "Orange soda?" he says as he hands up the bottles from the panting cooler, and if you encourage him he begins telling stories from the Bible, and talking in general about the state of the world. He believes that TV faked the moon landings. We react like Zarathustra, thinking to himself, could it be that this hermit, here in his woods, has not yet heard that...