Word: sermonizing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...summed up the whole overwhelming feeling of innocence which led most of Yale to act as it did. This book will not please many people; in fact, it will tend to infuriate almost anyone who reads it. To the conservative Yale alumnus, it offers a somewhat offensive sermon; to the undergraduate, it offers a patronizing attempt to explain 'youth culture'; to the black, it offers even more condescension. This is sad, because Hersey has set out with the best of intentions...
...Flip Wilson Show (NBC). Flip is black and cool, and the first night played as easily off David Frost as James Brown. He does not do quotable one-liners but routines, of which the standards include a sassy drag bit and his "Church of What's Happening Now" sermon...
...personal religious experience in 1946-which she speaks of only as her "baptism of the Holy Spirit"-inspired Kathryn to begin preaching regularly about the Holy Spirit. Healing came by accident, when a woman announced one night that she had been cured of a tumor during a previous Kuhlman sermon...
...puckish, progressive bimonthly, the Critic, is remarkably healthy -abetted by a brace of profitable newsletters, Protestant and Catholic, a series of packaged sermon topics, and the Thomas More Book Club...
...Barnard's departure wangled a heart-lung machine for him. Barnard is liberal with his "if it were not for the generosity of," particularly to Wangensteen. On the other hand, a new lifesaving operation employing a tube inside the heart-thought up by Barnard during a dull sermon in church -was performed with some revisions two years later by a Canadian surgeon named William Mustard. The doctor notes somewhat sulkily that "today it is known as Mustard's operation...