Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fire of the evangelist is still there, but it has been tempered with a cool willingness to compromise. The President has made conciliatory gestures to aristocrats who opposed his election. He has massaged the egos of political opponents who supported his ouster. He has acceded to the demands of church superiors who successfully pressured him to resign his priesthood in November. He has renewed his promise to step down at the end of his term in February 1996, even though he lost three years of his five-year tenure in exile. As he goes about the business of remaking...
While maintaining his group's autonomy, Hrnicek acknowledged speaking with Doug Webber, an evangelist for the Boston Church of Christ...
...book opens with the scene of the author's Lazarus-like return from death. A near-fatal bout with pneumonia leaves the newly resurrected Lawrence "with a heightened awareness of the physical world and a messianic tendency to preach." The author emerges as a different sort of evangelist than one might imagine. In an excerpt from one of his early poems, the virginal schoolmaster addresses his own sadly neglected member: "Thou proud, curved beauty Would worship these, letting my buttocks prance...
Hollywood giant Burt Lancaster, a 1960 Oscar winner for his role as flamboyant sham evangelist Elmer Gantry, died of a heart attack at age 80. His career spanned 70 films. But the Lancaster image that lingers for many is the once scandalous "From Here to Eternity" beach scene, in which a taut Burt and a svelte Deborah Kerr nearly get swept away...
...fallen television evangelist Jim Bakker is expected to be released from prison tomorrow, four and a half years after he was put away for stealing $150 million his Praise the Lord Club followers. He'll go to a halfway house in Asheville, NC where the former reverend will work for an unknown local business...