Word: coe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nightclubs in Austin, Texas, country music was a lot different from what it is now. Back then, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings were still putting grease in their hair and blending into the multitude of singers in Nashville, Rusty Weir was grinding out acid rock, and David Allen Coe was in prison. Nobody, least of all Jerry Jeff, would have guessed that he was starting a musical movement of sorts, still less that all those people would be drawn into...
...COE COLLEGE...
...person; I follow him around for days." Which is not lo say that the son of Artist Andrew Wyeth and grandson of Illustrator N.C. Wyeth ignores other subjects. At Wyeth's second one-man show in New York last week, many of the portraits presented at the Coe Kerr Gallery were of animals. Referring to his painting, Pig, Wyeth observed: "Pigs are very moody animals who have great depressions. In fact, a guy who raises pigs told me lo pul a radio near the animal with some soft music. The pig just stood there, kind of swaying...
...issues," observes Wesley Michaelson, Hatfield's legislative assistant. "The latent assumption is that the solution to political problems is to get people converted and committed to each other. [But] overseas some of the fellowship people are the same generals who carry out martial law." Still, Michaelson concedes that Coe's personal, uncritical ministry has made him "the real chaplain of the House and Senate." It has also forged ties of concern. When an assailant shot Mississippi's Senator John Stennis, a fellowship member, it was Hatfield-one of his foremost foes in the Senate-who spent...
Senator Hughes is probably Coe's most devoted convert. Hughes' long spiritual odyssey carried him from Alcoholics Anonymous and Methodist Sunday-school teaching to the Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship, a group of ministers and laymen who explore psychic phenomena. "I was looking for Christ," Hughes recalls. "I wanted miracles today. I wanted to believe in eternal life. My prayer life was constant, and I read the Scriptures, but what I was seeking I didn't find." Then in 1969 he met Coe, "a man who lived, believed and practiced the Scriptures. So, in prayer, Christ gradually came alive...