Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...title piece of this strange short-story collection, an emotionally disturbed child kicks his father in the groin. In Don't Call Me by My Right Name a man and wife take turns beating each other up. In Plan Now to Attend a hypocritical evangelist gets blind drunk in midmorning. In Sound of Talking a crippled husband makes his wife share his suffering. Almost all the women characters are fat and fortyish; almost all the men are shamed and unhappy. The poor are most often feebleminded, the rich vicious...
...full-fledged revival session, that drew a crowd of several hundred people into the Square on Saturday afternoon, caused the stoppage of all traffic for nearly a half-hour, and eventually resulted in the arrest of a 40-year-old evangelist, along with 12 of his disicples...
...Evangelist Billy Graham was unwarily inspecting his flock of three sheep near his North Carolina mountain home. A few seconds later, Farmer Graham picked himself up, cut and bruised, some fifty feet down the mountainside. The winner: a surly Suffolk ram, scoring three hits, no errors. Said Billy, from his bed of pain: "I turned the other cheek...
...Holy Ghost Amen. I promise and vow to Almighty God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, before the whole company of heaven, and be-you, my Fathers, that I will live in celibacy, poverty, and obedience, as one of the Mission Priests of St. John the Evangelist unto my life's end. So help...
...Oxford, Wantage, and Clewer had already offered, with the blessing of Anglican bishops a number of sanctuaries for women. Great communities dedicated to the saints had sprung up all over England. It remained only for an organized movement of men to develop. The Society of St. John the Evangelist, or the Cowley Fathers, provided that organization...