Word: sermonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clangorous bell-ringing of a white-hating rabble-rouser and finds his inflamed flock already there, armed with guns and ready to shoot it out with a lynch mob of whites that is cruising around the bottom land. The Preacher heads off an ugly racial skirmish with an impromptu sermon: "Whether old Abe Lincoln live and die in vain depend on you ... I know well's anybody, we got fight back now and then [but] everybody got find their own freedom. Everybody got lead their own selves outen the wilderness . . . Me-I'm goin home...
Early Life & Education: Born June 2, 1920, Dickson, Tenn., son of a druggist-turned-lawyer. Voluntarily tromped off at the age of eight to join the Methodist Church, preached his first sermon at 15. Specially tutored in public speaking by his aunt, Mrs. Dockie Shipp Weems, director of Shipp School of Expression. Married Lucille Christianson at 19, passed state bar examinations (with highest grade out of 276) a year before graduating from Vanderbilt University School...
There is no doubting Thomas's skill. No profound intellectual, Dekker still possessed consummate wit, and produced a busty, gusty, lusty farce of great warmth and vigor. Teeming with bawdy doubles ententes, it makes Measure for Measure read like Sunday sermon. And when Dekker doesn't call a spade a spade, he calls it a steamshovel...
...adapting Melville's 500 pages into a not over-long screenplay, Huston and Ray Bradbury have done a job that is unqualifiedly brilliant. They have followed the plot and the characterizations faithfully, and have even shown a welcome respect for the spoken word--in the sermon by Father Mapple, in Ishmael's intermittent narration, and in numerous speeches by Ahab that are taken almost verbatim from the book. At the same time, realizing that the camera and the pen are by no means interchangeable storytellers, they have not hesitated to take beneficial liberties with the novel. In Peter Coffin...
...does. Each Sunday the services at St. Ebbe's, St. Aldate's, St. Mary Magdalene, Pusey House and the Wesley Memorial Church are packed with young Oxonians. Sunday evening sermons at St. Mary the Virgin, the university church, are drawing record crowds, and 200-300 mimeographed copies of a sermon are likely to be snatched up within a few hours of delivery. About one student in six is estimated to be a member of one of the denominational societies, and about 80 undergraduates are being confirmed at the university each year. Says the Rev. Roy Stuart Lee, vicar...