Word: christe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Evangelist Billy Graham has impressed politicians as well as fellow preachers with his dynamic sermonizing and his success in persuading millions to make their "decision for Christ." Every President since Harry Truman has welcomed Billy to the White House. As a good Baptist, Graham has maintained a strict wall of separation between his religious and his political convictions, and has never endorsed any candidate for office. But his determination to be neutral has been sorely strained this election year. Billy finds it hard to conceal the fact that he has made his own decision for Richard Nixon...
...Redwoods League, which was founded 50 years ago. Creation of the park comes none too soon. At the present rate of logging, the virgin stands of redwoods would last only another 20 years, a mere second in the lives of trees that were swaying in the Pacific breeze when Christ was born...
...absurd, the cast moves onstage, forms a circle, and utters a low, collective, unrelenting wail. At Yale, student after student, grave of mien and with Viet Nam in mind, climbed up onstage and joined the circle. In revival terms, it was rather like making a "decision for Christ...
...dead mules on the piano symbolize sex, and ants symbolize masturbation.) Exploited sometimes as Bunuel's creation or more accurately as Dali's, Chien Andalou exhibits the most youthful characteristics in both. Dali's frantic desire to shock the bourgeoisie (viz. the eyeslicing) works with Bunuel's iconoclasm (the Christ-parody). In 1929, Bunuel derided the "imbeciles" who looked for beauty in this "despairing, passionate call to murder"; but from an aesthetic as well as a historical perspective, it's still worth seeing...
...Complex. As their numbers grow, former priests are approaching a new life in the secular world with an increasing confidence. In the past, priests who abandoned their vocations felt so disgraced that often they suffered for months and even years from a "Judas" complex-the feeling of having betrayed Christ. Things are more civilized now. Patrick Best, a Detroit priest who left last May and has gone back to school, boasts that "my congregation even gave me a couple of going-away parties." George Frein, a St. Louis priest who married an ex-nun in June, has been hired...