Word: sermonizer
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...better give me at least a blanket." Even with two blankets bought with a special appropriation ($70), Don Luigi was not comfortable enough to stay on and cast a precious vote for Scelba. But to Italy's divided politicians, he delivered a stern and moving sermon on what lies behind Italy's great political and economic sickness (see box). It was the first formal parliamentary speech he had ever made...
...read Homer, St. Augustine, Dante and Tolstoy, study the great laws of science and the experiments and logic that produced them. Later, the stage narrows down to the student's chosen field. Finally (for honors men) comes the senior thesis that might bear the title, "A 13th Century Sermon in Picard on the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary" or "The Persians of Aeschylus...
Thomas Gaydos is largely, successful in the part. With his full and well-modulated voice he can put across the long sermon between acts which might easily have been dull. And Gaydos' Becket is always a mature, gentle figure. Except at the very end, however, he lacks the fullness of power that Thomas must also have throughout. For "Murder in the Cathedral" is not a play of growth. Thomas does not suddenly seize on the power which he takes to his death. He had it, Eliot explains, over since he resigned the Chancellorship to devote his whole being...
...Calorie Diet. After his regular open-air session on Tower Hill last week, Dr. Soper grabbed a quick lunch and a train for Walton-on-Thames to conduct a Communion service at 4 p.m., address a rally of church supporters, then deliver an evening sermon to a packed congregation. He was already suffering from a bad cold, caught at nightly outdoor meetings in the South Wales ports of Cardiff and Swansea and in the uplands on the English-Welsh border...
This week the Rev. Charles Gresham Marmion Jr., 48, preached his last sermon at the Church of the Incarnation. On Feb. 2 he will be consecrated Bishop of Kentucky, with his brother as one of the attending presbyters. A month or so later, the Rev. William Henry Marmion, 46, will be consecrated Bishop of Southwestern Virginia-thus making the third set of brother-bishops in the Episcopal Church...