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With good reason, many primitive peoples regarded the terrible quakes they could not understand as the acts of a vengeful deity. As late as 1750, Thomas Sherlock, the Bishop of London, told his flock that two recent earthquakes were warnings that Londoners should atone for their sins. John Wesley agreed. In a 1777 letter to a friend, he wrote...
...front page of the East Hampton Summer Sun and five sister weeklies published for the well-heeled vacationers who flock to the east end of Long Island was given over in its entirety recently to a letter from the police chief of nearby Bridgehampton. The lawman asked that residents contribute raw meat to local authorities to help feed a killer shark roaming the area's beaches so that its consumption of swimmers could be cut back from...
...here, the gesture is either redeeming or it is not. But Altman and Gibson developed the character in a less good guy/bad guy way. He is merely a man who defines himself through his audience--a totally public identity. This may be courage: more likely his soothing of the flock after the assassination is a method of control: Altman's last shot in the film, before he pans up to the sky, is of a policewoman, prim in her cap, marching through the crowd with a bag slung officially over her shoulder. Maybe the singing Haven Hamilton is a kind...
...world. Nowhere is the boy guru's universe better furnished than in the U.S., to which he brought his movement in 1971: a string of 45 ashrams (retreat houses) and information centers in 110 cities across the country tend to the spiritual needs of the Divine Light flock, whose tax-exempt offerings have furnished the teen-age Lord with, among other things, an $80,000 pad in Denver, a $400,000 estate in Malibu and an armada of limousines and racing cars...
This promise of resurrection inspired new devotion in the church's sober flock of about 70 auto workers, teachers, small businessmen and housewives. They recruited ten new believers and expanded the church parking lot to handle the overflow crowds they expect when Gill returns. Since last August, especially devout members have been honored by appointment to a corps that keeps a prayer vigil in the church 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to await Gill's resurrection...