Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Schkolnick says the University still awards the Burton Memorial Scholarship, which requires its recipients to be either a member of the sect of Saint John the Evangelist or the Fly Club. Since the scholarship's trustees are dead, the money is now given out by the College itself...
...cannot cover sin. It has to be exposed." That was the stern view of the Rev. Jimmy Swaggart last March as he pushed for full disclosure of the adultery and alleged homosexual activities of TV Evangelist Jim Bakker. Swaggart, an emotional, tear-jerking performer whose TV ministry takes in an estimated $140 million a year, called Bakker's behavior a "cancer that needed to be excised...
...Rather-George Bush confrontation of four weeks ago has already secured a place in U.S. political folklore. Almost every week since, another TV "moment" has grabbed the spotlight. After Iowa, it was Pat Robertson's bristling response to Tom Brokaw's characterization of him as a "former television evangelist." Last week it was Dole's ill-tempered admonition to Bush -- after another Brokaw question -- to "stop lying about my record...
...Republican contest, Sen. Robert Dole (R.-Kan.) scored an impressive victory in the South Dakota Republican primary last night and bid for a back-up win in Minnesota's presidential caucuses, with Vice President George Bush far behind in both states. Dole defeated former television evangelist Pat Robertson to win Minnesota's Republican presidential caucuses last night, with Bush a distant fourth behind Rep. Jack Kemp...
Last year's show, Bye, Bye Verdi, anticipated real-life news by about 12 months. It pitted Holly R. Thanthou, a fiery, flock-bilking television evangelist against assorted others bent on exposing his less-than-upstanding life, or at least that's what people who saw it say. It was, according to those people, not a crowd-pleaser...