Word: evangelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point, Wilson introduces a figure of the old order, one Colonel Lambourn, who carries about maps of mysterious defense zones and obscure treasure troves. He is. of course, mad. Colonel and Teddy boy meet by chance, and the madman of the old regime is struck down by the inarticulate evangel of the new. Muses Wilson's Teddy boy in a weird finale: "See, it's like I said when I see red I don't know my own strength. And it's all, all of it, a bloody cheat and I don't know what...
...seems on the surface. A careful reading of certain confessions has convinced those acquainted with the signers that they carry a double meaning-a defense of the conduct or thought now disowned as well as an ostensible statement of conformity . . . Some ministers openly and determinedly preach the Christian Evangel, refusing to adulterate it with politics and even condemning those who preach a political gospel . . . Chinese Christians have assured many of us that they will be true to Christ, that they will die rather than renounce their faith...
When the McCarthy evangel began in 1950, the liberals saw in his distortions and exaggerations a chance to divert attention from the bedroom scene. They began to construct the myth of McCarthy's great power and his menace to liberty...
Author Fisher shows some sympathy for the hot-eyed Ahijah. It is almost as though there were some burning affinity between the old eater of stones and howler in the waste places and the seer of Hagerman, Idaho, crying his confused and passionate evangel of history in the wilderness of American letters...