Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...number received for the previous record holder, the cover story Is God Dead?, in 1966. A story need not be cover-length, however, to stir up a big response. A short item in People [April 2] on Billy Graham drew scores of letters, most of which criticized the evangelist's suggestion that rapists be castrated. "Bless Billy Graham for making virtue secure," wrote one subscriber, adding, "Christ was so namby-pamby about things...
There was one other thing about Charlie. He was a roaring evangelist. He used to stop me in the halls almost every day on my way to fifth period and plead with me to see the light and be saved. He was just sure that I had Christ in me. (I would have been flattered, but he said that to all the Jewish girls). Charlie didn's stop at anything to bring Christ into Mountain Brook. He used to speak once a week at Morning Watch (a daily prayer gathering of students and teachers) and warn that all non-believers...
...Year's Eve television screens, Evangelist Billy Graham, sports-jacketed and gray-templed, delivered a fireside jeremiad. Citing the year's woeful parade of scandals, crises and other miseries, Graham warned that the U.S. would experience even worse difficulties if Americans did not forthwith repent and return to God. "The only answer," he said, "is Jesus...
...nominate the incomparable evangelist, Billy Graham...
...Neill's passions and obsessions, but -the drama's organic life is stunted. Except for Hickey, Iceman 's characters tend to be puppets who are twitched to demonstrate the central the sis. James Earl Jones' Hickey is over wrought, a manic-morose evangelist given to fits of hysterical joviality. In a production not conspicuously endowed with strength or cohesiveness, Jones' prizefighter style makes him disconcert ingly and divisively strong, as if a born winner had stumbled into the company ofbornlosers...