Word: sermonizer
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...their confidence he shamelessly acts their age. Every night after work and all day Sunday ("Funday"), Sam spouts Sam-made nursery rhymes ("Old Mother Bannister sat on her canister"), talks baby talk ("Dot a nedache. Dot pagans in my stumjack") and justifies his egotism by spieling off a sermon on world federation or the evils of drink or his own "beautiful soul and sympathetic life story." His object, he piously proclaims, is to create "splendid men and women to work for progress." But when his eldest daughter shows signs of becoming a splendid woman, Sam savagely attempts to destroy...
Paul J. Tillich, University Professor, Emeritus, will deliver a sermon at services in Memorial Church at 11 a.m. tomorrow...
...President Kennedy's assassination. As the shock wave reverberates through their minds, Morris reveals the cracks and flaws of personality that in his view divide Americans from one another and thus make such a senseless outrage all too understandable. The book has the makings of a strong sermon; as a novel it runs aground within 50 pages in the shallows of its eccentric cast...
...high school student-winners of a Westinghouse Foundation science contest, he proudly announced that Daughter Luci had been admitted to Georgetown University School of Nursing, quoted her as saying: "Daddy, there is just nothing more 'in' than brains." Later the same day, he delivered a rousing sermon before some 200 delegates to a National Education Association conference...
...Instead of 40. Another proposal for updating Lent came from the Rt. Rev. Horace Donegan, Episcopal Bishop of New York. "It is less than honest to maintain that a Lent of 40 days is the final word for our age," he said in an Ash Wednesday sermon. "The Lenten diet is now possible only in exclusively religious establishments. The lengthy services with their glorious lessons have become unrealistic for men and women catching commuters' trains. The quiet pace of a 17th century Lent is impossible for people living in 20th century New York. I would gladly see Lent shortened...