Word: sermonizings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...answer we will not attempt here an amateur joy ride through the financial maze of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' budget nor will we preach a sermon over Harvard's fabled untouched riches. Undoubtedly, though surpluses may turn up in some years and deficits in others, the budget of the Faculty will, when completed, generally show in any year little room for any major new expenditures. What we wish to emphasize instead is the obvious: That all budgets are founded upon a judgement of relative priorities, and that our petition essentially asks Harvard to reconsider her present priorities...
...sharpened with moral indignation at the Nazi officer class, which served as Kirst's human symbol for German inhumanity during World War II. Like the earlier book, the present Brothers in Arms also has two levels, one occupied by Kirst's story, the other by his sermon...
YOUNGER THAN YESTERDAY (Columbia). The Byrds first took wing as interpreters of Bob Dylan and on their fourth album soar highest with one of Dylan's old songs, My Back Pages. Where Dylan himself sang the disillusioned sermon like a harsh and nasal backwoods evangelist, the Byrds weave it into a more mellifluous and harmonic song. They also chirp sweetly about what seem to be LSDelightful reveries (Mind Gardens, Renaissance Fair...
These days, a sermon is likely to start off with anything from a reference to Peanuts to a Bob Dylan song to a passage from Hugh Hefner's interminable Playboy philosophy. Dr. C. Edward Gammon of Fairlington Presbyterian Church in Virginia, for example, intends to base his Easter sermon on Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Gammon's point: George and Martha's play-long dialogue about their nonexistent son suggests contemporary man's inability to distinguish fantasy from reality. The Rev. A. Cecil Williams of San Francisco's Glide...
...wall. His theme was that Christians should not treat other human beings in the Playboy manner, as disposable consumer products. On another Sunday, the congregation of Cincinnati's St. Timothy's Episcopal Church was startled when one parishioner got up to leave in the middle of the sermon by the Rev. John Wesley Bishop. "Why are you leaving?" Bishop asked. "Because you are talking about irrelevant things," the man answered. Bishop then explained to his puzzled congregation that the incident had been carefully staged. He went on to make the real point of his sermon-namely, that...