Word: evangelistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What is it in this man, in his urgent voice and eager eyes, in the message and the messenger, that overwhelms even those who are predisposed to distrust him? Long ago, Billy Graham gave up the shiny suits and technicolor ties of the brash young evangelist; the silver mane is thinner now, the step may falter a bit, he no longer prowls the stage like a lynx. In his preaching as well, the temperatures of hellfire have been reduced, the volume turned down. Graham knows he needs to save his strength: he is fighting Parkinson's disease, a progressive nervous...
...part, Billy says Ruth "was the one who had the greatest influence in urging me to be an evangelist...
Graham always appreciated the importance both of appearances and of self- promotion. Along the way he won some unlikely backers, among the most useful William Randolph Hearst. The old reprobate publisher was so taken with the evangelist's patriotism and call for spiritual renewal that he telegraphed his editors around the country: "Puff Graham." TIME for its part declared in 1949 that no one since Billy Sunday had wielded "the revival sickle" as successfully as this "blond, trumpet-lunged North Carolinian...
Woodruff may have learned his way with people as the son of a tent-preaching Oklahoma evangelist; his job was to take around the collection plate, and by the age of 10, he was giving his own sermons. After joining the CIA in 1975, he thrived on Third World crises. He loathed neckties and wore cowboy boots and sometimes a ten-gallon hat. But he was no cowboy on the job. Joseph O'Neill, who served with Woodruff in Africa and is now charge d'affaires in Eritrea, considered him a rock-steady operative who "knew exactly what...
CRITICS GROUSE ABOUT HOLLYWOOD'S LOVE OF THE tried and true, but ultimately that's just what the audience wants. Proof: this holiday season's movie- attendance figures. The big disappointments were all thematically adventurous: Leap of Faith (Steve Martin as an evangelist), Hoffa (Jack Nicholson as a labor leader), Malcolm X (Denzel Washington as a civil rights activist) and Toys (Robin Williams as . . . whatever...