Word: sermonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, Henry P. Van Dusen, took a few months off early this year for some churchly visitation he calmly set out to visit church groups on four continents and in 20 countries, a trip of some 40,000 miles.* Last week in a sermon at Wellesley College, Dr. Van Dusen reported what he had found on his "plane's-eye view of Christianity around the world...
Your Feb. 16 article "Sermon on the Air" is enough to sicken anybody familiar with the modern radio-TV method of doing "good work" while enriching the sponsor. It serves notice that Ralph Edwards and his kind will continue until they have successfully catalogued, price-tagged, and exploited every human emotion...
...room which bristles with switches, plugs and dials. Instead of such rousing hymns as Onward! Christian Soldiers and Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus, the old building resounded this week to the throb of a popular-music combo. And near the spot where a vested minister once stood at sermon time, a perky blonde in her stocking feet poised herself before a microphone and sang a little number about a fellow who wouldn't take his hand off her knee...
Among the standouts were three Alpine landscapes by Bruegel, who turned inches of paper into miles of thousands of mountainside by the application of thousands of tiny ink lines sensitively stitched and pyramided together. Claude Lorrain's Sermon on the Mount created a hilltop grove, shepherds and their flock, a wide and crowded harbor and a distant town, all with a little ink and broad watery washes. Peter Paul Rubens' delicately tinted watercolor of a farmyard was as tender and vivid as April grass. Thomas Gainsborough's charcoal sketches showed that he could read the face...
Ralph Edwards, who once taught Sunday school, thinks of his TV shows as sermons, and regards his millions of viewers as a congregation. But he is quick to add: "Of course, our prime target is entertainment." Last week, on This Is Your Life (Wed. 10 p.m., NBC), his sermon was a real shocker...