Word: sermonized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...near-rags and wasted by dysentery, tottered ashore at Boston Harbor. After convincing one rector that he was indeed a clergyman ("my ship-clothes not being the best credentials"), Charles Wesley, prolific composer (6,500 hymns) and restless younger brother of Methodism's Founder John Wesley, preached a sermon in Christ Church, better known as the Old North Church...
Last week, on the 221st anniversary of Wesley's Christ Church sermon and the 250th anniversary of the year of his birth, some 50 Methodist and Episcopal clergymen marched into the Old North Church to the chimed tunes of Wesley's hymns (two of the best-known: Jesus, Lover of my soul, Hark ! the herald angels sing), to take part in a memorial service. The sermon bore the same title (''One Needful Thing") as Charles Wesley's, and its substance was the stern kind of moralizing that the 18th century preacher would have approved. Methodist...
Died. The Rev. A. (for Arthur) Powell Davies, 55, eloquent pastor of Washington's All Souls Unitarian Church (since 1944), author of liberalized gospel (The Urge to Persecute); of a heart attack; in Washington. Davies often used his well-attended sermons to dissect current events: when fellow traveling was still in vogue, he prodded U.S. liberals; when Congressional Investigators McCarthy, Velde and Jenner were glorified, he blasted them as "men of tyranny." Two days before his death, Davies appeared on WABD's Nightbeat, was asked by Newsgriller John Wingate what would be the theme of his last sermon...
...Your story on Senator Richard Russell and the South's fight on the so-called civil rights bill was, in TIME'S fashion, just one more sermon for compulsory integration-not so effective a sermon, however, as your picture of Manhattan's integrated teen-age gangsters was in support of Senator Russell and segregation...
...since 1942, gets tangled in his unreeling novel and goes down with his quips. Spoofing government may be like spoofing Hollywood-reality is so much more preposterous than any possible fiction. What might have been a sharp-witted satire on boobery among bureaucrats turns out to be a sheepish sermon on sic transit gloria Monday through Friday...