Word: sermonizings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concession to these critics, the board agreed to paste brown tape over or tear out such religious passages as the Sermon on the Mount. But outside of that, it would take no guff about McGuffey. Said Beula: "McGuffey teaches the basic morals of Americanism-honor your parents, honesty, love animals." Said Pfeiffer: "McGuffey builds recognition of the heroic, the elevated, the patriotic strength on which our country is based. If we had McGuffey's in our schools we never would have had the defections we had in Korea...
...venerable Chrysostom, 81, Metropolitan of Neapolis, Thasos and Philippi, and was actually run by an Athenagoras protégé-slim, black-bearded and also named Chrysostom, the Metropolitan of Myron-who served as the meeting's executive secretary. With true Orthodox grandiloquence, he said in his sermon at the opening Mass: "If I could characterize the Pan-Orthodox Conference in one word, I should not hesitate to say that it is a conference for the projection of Orthodoxy on a scale which is Pan-Orthodox, Pan-Christian and worldwide...
...schedule is crowded with speaking engagements all over the U.S. and abroad, but he has not slighted his own congregation, whose size forces him to preach two identical Sunday sermons, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Once, in order not to break a 44-year record of never having missed a sermon because of illness, he preached in a laryngitic whisper into a microphone held against his lips...
...Francis Drake of Leverett, Mass., stood in shirtsleeves and sunglasses for the opening prayer. The Rev. George Condon of Pelham, Mass., read the Biblical account of how Christ calmed the storm. The Rev. Philip Steinmetz of Ashfield, Mass., braced himself in the boat and gave the sermon...
From a guest pulpit in the New York Herald Tribune, Author William Saroyan, a longtime tax-impelled expatriate, unburdened himself of a sermon on the sins of the U.S. theater. Among his targets: "fishy" audiences ("The real people almost never get to the theater"), captious critics ("If they were reviewing the world, the show would close after two performances"), and that revered Broadway training ground, the Actors' Studio ("The supreme achievement at this new church is to divorce from any of its members even the faintest condition of peopleness"). The gist of Saroyan's complaint: "Everybody is kind...