Word: sermonizer
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Parson Patrick decided to bring the secret suffering into the open. One Sunday last month, when the time came to start his sermon, he told the worshipers: "Today you'll have a treat. I'll read you a sermon sent to me in the form of a letter. Some of your names are mentioned in it, but ... it's all for the best...
...Manhattan's City Center, balletomanes found her new "dance sermon" Billy Sunday (or Giving the Devil His Due) good, saucy fun, if not always good ballet. Ballet Russe's stars Frederic Franklin and Alexandra Danilova not only danced, but spoke-and to everyone's surprise, spoke well...
...Brains Trust (BBC's recently ended version of Information Please). To bookish laymen and lecture-goers he is known as a racy popularizer of philosophy ("Philosophy should be about something that matters"). Clergymen once knew him as an annoying, church-baiting agnostic; at least one angry sermon has been preached on "God, Joad and the Devil...
Harvest. In Oconomowoc, Wis., the Rev. William Clyde Donald sat comfortably with his congregation and listened to the sermon that he had providently recorded before laryngitis reduced him to whispers...
...answer from all continents was a fatuous yes. The answer missed the point; Gandhi was a rarer human being-a good man. He disturbed people by his goodness. He called himself "a Hindu of Hindus," and yet he put many a professing Christian to shame. "The spirit of the Sermon on the Mount," wrote the man who fitted the rubrics of the Beatitudes more comfortably than most Christians, "competes almost on equal terms with the Bhagavad-Gita for the domination of my heart...