Word: sermonizer
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...Otherwise a hit-and-run piece, the article apparently drew blood when it charged that, "The only shared values [at Harvard] are sheer survival and self-gratification." The Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, used the Esquire allegations as a taking-off point in his opening sermon of the year, as he criticized the absence of priorities instilled in today's undergraduates. Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen, also referred to Esquire's charges in opening remarks to freshmen. Whether the magazine prompted Bok's public recognition of nasty campus incidents, though, is almost irrelevant. What matters...
...Lenny Bruce" is classic Dylan. It is a sparse, almost bare track celebrating the late comedian. Voice and piano start out alone, joined later by a light bass and drums. Dylan's assurance is almost preachy, making "Lenny Bruce" an I-knew-but-you-didn't sermon...
...Helms is younger and sleeker than the others, and his North Carolina drawl is more circumspect. "The lesson today," he says, "is based on Moses' sermon to the Israelites, where he laid it out for 'em?didn't he, Red? Bear in mind, as I read, America of 1981 ... This land of ours was divinely inspired. Thomas Jefferson and all the rest were not smart enough to come up with this system. They got on their knees and prayed for it. That's what makes our country unique...
...people, Louisiana's Huey Long, would have found Helms incomprehensible. "Anybody that lets his public policies get mixed up with his religious prejudices," Long said, "is a goddamned fool." But Helms, heedless, faces the crowd this day in bleachers on the parched crab grass and delivers a sermon. He rhapsodizes about his pen pal Alexander Solzhenitsyn's dedication to freedom and Christianity. He flagrantly overstates Alexis de Tocqueville's 19th century observations about American piety. Most of all, he praises God. "The Lord is speaking to us: 'I have need for thee.' To uphold the principles and the laws...
Khomeini conceded that the loss of his President and Prime Minister was "difficult to bear," but he insisted that his regime would survive. "Our nation will not be shaken at all," he declared in a sermon delivered at the Hoseiniyeh Jamaran mosque north of Tehran. Though Khomeini asked his followers not to be "hasty and un-Islamic" in their treatment of suspects, his admonitions fell on deaf ears: last week Islamic tribunals sent 138 more opponents, including some teen-age girls, before firing squads, raising the total number of political executions since Banisadr's ouster on June...