Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting of the council's General Assembly. "There is nothing in Mr. Hope's record showing public commitment to the three pressing issues that confront the council-poverty, racial justice and peace," said the Rev. Richard J. Neuhaus of Brooklyn's St. John the Evangelist Lutheran Church. Hope is known rather for his "uncritical endorsement of the military establishment and the Indochina war." After prolonged debate, the delegates decided to switch the award to the late Whitney M. Young Jr. Said Hope: "I'd vote for him myself...
With such kinetic qualities, Ogdon could easily have gone on to a profitable life of barnstorming the world with war-horse concertos. Instead, after sharing first prize with Vladimir Ashkenazy in Moscow's 1962 Tchaikovsky Competition, he became an evangelist for music that few other major pianists would touch. One of his best LP albums is devoted entirely to some of the piano music of Carl Nielsen (RCA), another to Ferruccio Busoni's hour-long piano concerto (Angel), a woolly and wonderful specimen of Germanic post-romanticism that includes a resounding men's chorus in the finale...
...long since divorced from Mc-Pherson, Aimee eloped to Yuma, Ariz., with a plump baritone named David Hutton, who sang in the temple choir. On the morning after their wedding, Aimee and David cooed over the radio from the bridal boudoir in the evangelist's home and signed off with a loud wet smack. Next day David was sued for breach of promise by a "masseuse" named Myrtle Joan Hazel St. Pierre, who announced that "Big Boy" had sullied her virtue on the floor of her living room and then had failed to make an honest woman...
...When we recite the roll of the boring [July 13], how can we leave out that evangelist of bisexualism, Gore Vidal? And who could think of either Vidal or boredom without thinking of the King of Leer, William F. Buckley Jr.? Who could be more tiresome than Billy Graham? The list is obviously far from complete...
Though most street Christians share such a fundamentalist streak, no two houses or communes are exactly alike. On Sunset Strip, for instance, Evangelist Tony Alamo, a onetime record promoter, preaches hellfire and damnation to anyone who refuses to live by the Gospel. He and his wife Susan guard their flocks rigidly at Christian Foundation, their church and commune...