Word: evangelistic
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...AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL, by Kenneth Rexroth. With a cast of 1,000 people least likely to get into Who's Who, Kenneth Rexroth, last of the old bohemians, crams the stage of a crowded biography. Fortunately, the old political evangelist ceases to wave the flags of social revolt in favor of chronicling the reign of a minor king of the Big Rock Candy Mountain...
...leading evangelist of the new spirit is the governor of the Bank of Thailand, Dr. Puey Ungphakorn. Publicity-shy Puey, 49, holder of a Ph.D. in economics from London University, refuses honors and decorations, keeps his birth date a secret in order to thwart the Thai custom of showering public figures with presents, and tends zealously to his three jobs-at the bank, as director of fiscal policy for Thailand's Finance Ministry and as dean of the economics faculty at Thammasat University. Last month Puey quietly put together a formal alliance of central-bank governors from Ceylon, Laos...
...dead? Of course not, preached Evangelist Billy Graham, 47, to the Atlanta Press Club. As a matter of fact, said the reverend, "I can tell you that God is alive because I talked to Him this morning...
...pursuit is undertaken with relish and good humor, much as a Claes Oldenburg delights in making a mattress-sized Popsicle on a limp stick. Beauty seems no longer at stake; the word itself is rarely used. But tough, satirical commentary abounds. "An artist should be an evangelist for looking," says Rauschenberg. Yet in creating a second, magical reality, the artist often ends up with whole stage-sets, creating a future problem: What's to keep the museums of the future from looking like a decayed Disneyland, or the whole back...
...peak of ecstasy in the Kingdom of Peace came in 1949, when the evangelist made public his marriage to Edna Rose Ritchings, the comely 21-year-old daughter of a white Vancouver florist, his "Spotless Virgin Bride." The original Mother Divine, a Negro, had died six years earlier; her spirit, Father Divine explained, had passed into Rose's shapely form...