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Word: berge (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doom to America, buttering up Libya's latter-day caliph, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, and loosening up their sex ethics enough to lure new members. Only a few hundred of the 3,000 or so hard-core members remain in the U.S. The reason, according to Founding Father David Berg, alias "Moses David," has to do with the comet Kohoutek, which was supposed to herald catastrophe to the nation beginning on or about Jan. 31. In the weeks before doomsday, some of the Children of God appeared in red sackcloth at United Nations Plaza in New York City warning Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Children of Doom | 2/18/1974 | See Source »

...information center for the Children of God today is London. But Leader Moses David stays as elusive as Howard Hughes, making contact with the members only in his weekly epistles called "Mo Letters" and through what might be described as fundamentalist pornography. Berg's poem Mountin' Maid, for instance, is 300 lines of awful doggerel urging women to bare their breasts. Sample line: Can't we leave those summits bare Without all that underwear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Children of Doom | 2/18/1974 | See Source »

HOLMES HALL--Harvard Music Department Performance Seminar. Chamber music of Mozart, Berg, Sessions. Free. Thursday, February...

Author: By Kenneth Hoffman, | Title: Classical | 2/14/1974 | See Source »

...that age-old facility Harvard had some memorable wins including a stellar performance by high jumper Mel Embree--6'10", a new meet record, and an equally sidereal effort by Blayne Heckel in the pole vault. Heckel and teammate Don Berg combined for first and second slots in the vaulting competition...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Harvard Thinclads Gain Greater Boston Title, Defeat Rivals Northeastern and Boston College | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

...next with an easy 15-9, 15-4, 15-5 thumping of the Williams seventh man, Stewart Browne. Steve Mead started quickly in the eighth spot with lopsided 15-7 and 15-6 scores, then barely hung on in the third game for a 15-14 win over Gene Berg...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Racquetmen Thrash Williams, Stay Unbeaten With Easy 9-0 Victory. | 1/17/1974 | See Source »

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