Word: evangelist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even the pros in golf need a little divine guidance at times, and when Evangelist Billy Graham, no mean golfer himself, was in Atlanta for a pro-amateur round before the Atlanta Classic tournament, he took the occasion to hand out a few tips from "the greatest pro of all time-the Lord Jesus Christ." Proper stance: "We must take a stand on what we believe in." Proper grip: "Get a grip on life." Hitting the ball from inside out: "True also in life, since the Bible says you have a body with a spirit inside it." Keeping your...
...politician in British history and won applause from bastions of business such as London's Financial Times, which called her "one of the few really effective ministers in the present government." A lifelong socialist and a cause-carrying M.P. for more than two decades, she served as an evangelist for the Beveridge report, which blueprinted Britain's postwar welfare state. She has a tongue like a stiletto when she needs it, and once goaded Tory M.P. Peter Walker into comparing her to Dickens' Madame Defarge. "Madame Guillotine," he called her. "All that's missing...
...Evangelist. Back in Washington he made time with the representatives of the National Federation of Italian-American Organizations (Paesano Frank Sinatra is also a Humphrey booster) and got long and loud applause from a U.S. Chamber of Commerce group of 1,200. He criticized "unbelievably high deficits" in the federal budget, charged that the "present welfare system all too often fails both the test of compassion and the test of efficiency." The War on Poverty is not the Office of Economic Opportunity, he said. "The War on Poverty...
...delegates to the African Methodist Episcopal Church's quadrennial session. Applause interrupted his speech 66 times as Humphrey promised to formulate "a new and complete national commitment to human rights." The hall resounded with the fervent cries of an old-time revivalist meeting and Humphrev, the old political evangelist, joined the crowd in sineine We Shall Overcome...
...Rembrandts.* Many scholars feel that de-attribution has gone too far. In his 1964 study, Harvard's Jakob Rosenberg, considered to be ultraconservative in his choices, relisted 33 Rembrandts that Bredius had disqualified. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts recently looked at a discredited St. John the Evangelist, concluded that only the saint's beard had been added by a later hand, erased the beard and reinstated the painting as a veritable Rembrandt...