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...puckish, progressive bimonthly, the Critic, is remarkably healthy -abetted by a brace of profitable newsletters, Protestant and Catholic, a series of packaged sermon topics, and the Thomas More Book Club...
...Barnard's departure wangled a heart-lung machine for him. Barnard is liberal with his "if it were not for the generosity of," particularly to Wangensteen. On the other hand, a new lifesaving operation employing a tube inside the heart-thought up by Barnard during a dull sermon in church -was performed with some revisions two years later by a Canadian surgeon named William Mustard. The doctor notes somewhat sulkily that "today it is known as Mustard's operation...
...founder and inspiration of the M.C.C. is the Rev. Troy Perry, a homosexual who admits it without embarrassment or shame. Perry preached his first sermon when he was 13, and became a licensed Baptist minister at 15 (a year later he switched to Pentacostalism because he found its kinetic services more to his liking). Though he had his first homosexual experience at nine, he did not accept his sexual orientation until he was 23. By then he was married, the father of two sons and pastor of the Church of God of Prophecy in Santa Ana, Calif. When he finally...
Although it sounds like the name of a new and slightly pompous magazine, events is in fact a sermon: the wages of sexual indulgence are boredom, anxiety and spiritual sterility...
...undersigned members of the Class of 1945 at Harvard University marking our 25th reunion this year wish to go on record in expressing our disapproval of President Pusey's Baccalaureate Sermon yesterday. To have devoted so much time to attack a minority of violently radical students, none of whom was present, seems to us not only inappropriate but an insult to the majority of the graduating class of Harvard who are opposed as he to the methods of the revolutionary left but even more opposed to the senseless violence of the war in Indo-China, a subject he mentioned...