Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wearing yellow armbands for identification, the volunteers preceded the police in their sweeps through ghetto streets, warning residents to obey the 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew imposed by Mayor Hugh Addonizio. The disorder abated quickly, without causing sympathy tremors in other New Jersey cities. In San Francisco, black clergymen, labor officials and professional people went out into the neighborhoods to help cool rising tempers following a police raid on Black Panther headquarters...
...slogan be turned into a popular song. But Viet Nam is a different kind of war, and clerical critics-including a few ex-chaplains -are beginning to question whether a minister in uniform can really be honest to God while remaining faithful to the Pentagon. This month several civilian clergymen from San Francisco -after an inspection tour of the stockade at the Presidio-bluntly suggested that military chaplains may have outlived their usefulness...
...last year's Lambeth Conference, the fellowship petitioned the church to reopen a 1937 inquiry into spiritualism undertaken under the auspices of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York. Although the report was never officially published, it held that there were enough instances of inexplicable psychic events for Anglican clergymen to "keep in touch with groups of intelligent persons who believe in spiritualism." The fellowship also urged the addition of parapsychology to the curriculum of Anglican seminaries. In this way, the letter said, young clergymen would be able to provide more "adequate apologetic answers to the great problems of life...
Checkers with a Catatonic. Crisis intervention is the most successful technique developed so far by the rapidly expanding community mental-health movement. In addition to professional psychiatrists, crisis centers are staffed by a team, including nurses, social workers, lay therapists and clergymen. "The techniques we use are totally unrelated to psychoanalysis," says Dr. Barry Decker, director of clinical psychiatry at San Francisco General Hospital. "The staff takes an active role with patients. Anyone on the team might be able to set up such a rapport that they could play checkers with a catatonic the doctor couldn't even make...
...remarkably misleading. Beyond the fact that witchcraft trials resulted in 20 executions, he says, everything in the popular tradition is false. Far from inciting tragedy, the clergy "acted throughout as a restraint upon the proceedings and it was their misgivings which finally brought the trials to an end." (Clergymen had much influence but no office; the Bay Colony was no theocracy.) The afflicted girls, whose courtroom convulsions at the sight of the accused convinced the judges, were not spiteful exhibitionists, but felt themselves to be truly afflicted. In fact, writes Hansen, the girls had good reason for their hysterical terror...