Word: armageddons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pressed upon an unwilling audience the message that mankind is nearing the End. Franz, a bachelor who has labored in the sect's headquarters since 1920, will not be surprised if he lives to see the destruction of the world's political order in the Battle of Armageddon, which will usher in Christ's 1,000-year reign...
...cast as the leaders of a black revolution. Ultimately the question is just how serious black resistance can be, how much difference it can make. As long ago as the mid-'40s, there were predictions of an imminent eruption in South Africa. There were many individual outbursts, but Armageddon never came. Black South Africans (and indeed whites as well) are subject to a formidable, determined, often brutal, well-armed police state. Apart from being put in jail for a variety of reasons, people may be "banned"-restricted to a certain location, prohibited from attending meetings (including church) or going...
Died. Nathan Homer Knorr, 72, third president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, the 105-year-old denomination also known as Jehovah's Witnesses; after a long illness; in Wallkill, N.Y. During his 35 years as president of the society, which believes that Armageddon is near at hand, Knorr helped build up its membership from 113,000 to 1 million, in 80 countries. A vigorous preacher, Knorr charged that organized religion was working the world's destruction by perverting the Bible's teaching...
...Soviets warily size up each other's weaponry, the overriding question of whether those arms will ever be the tools of Armageddon depends, of course, on how the two superpowers get along. Increasingly, the SALT negotiations have taken on a meaning beyond their direct purpose of curtailing a nuclear weapons race. They have become the most telling barometer of the future of U.S.-Soviet relations...
JEAN-PAUL BELMONDO may be the only actor in the world who could look suave, imperturbable and sexy straight through Armageddon. Louis Malle, using Belmondo's steeliness for its full impact, gives us ten long minutes of his cool gaze at the opening of Le Voleur. (This is an apparently neglected film that resurfaced this summer at the Telluride Film Festival.) In the dark, eerie moonlight we watch the burglar, Belmondo, crowbar his way into a ritzy, turn-of-the-century mansion. You have never seen such gaudy art nouveau furniture as lies within this house. And Belmondo sees...