Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lyndon Johnson thumbed through his Father's Day gift from Daughter Lynda Bird last week-F.D.R.'s old copy of Aesop's Fables-he might have come upon the tale about the dying lion. As the King of Beasts declined in strength, the story goes, the lesser animals trooped up to his cave, no longer subservient. The boar attacked him with his tusks; the bull gored him; even the ass, feeling quite safe, kicked up his heels and brayed. "Ah," sighed the failing King, "thus dies majesty." In the waning months of the Johnson Administration, TIME...
Defenders of charismatic worship argue that there is Biblical warrant for it. Prophecy was an accepted spiritual gift among the Jews, while both Jesus and his disciples, according to the New Testament, practiced faith healing. St. Paul's epistles refer to "speaking in tongues"-which to its modern practitioners means the sudden effusion of prayer in nonsense syllables...
...glossolalia cells. One of the few parishes that openly espouses the charismatic approach is the Church of the Good Shepherd in Elk Grove Village, Ill. Its pastor, the Rev. Lloyd Weber of the United Church of Christ, had long been interested in Pentecostalism, and says that he received the "gift of tongues" three years ago. He gradually introduced his parishioners to the practice, and glossolalia prayers are now a regular feature of Sunday worship...
...freewheeling last half of the novel, Enderby returns to claim his old poet's self. On the lam from all his would-be reformers-including the police-he ends up in the layatories of Morocco, blissfully scribbling a long poem based on Hamlet. Enderby may not have the gift for living, but, concludes Burgess, "poets, even minor ones, donate the right words" that enable others to live. On this claim-that they are saviors who cannot save themselves-Burgess rests his case for all poets...
...citation: "A former specialist in labor law, active in improving the administration of justice, he now exercises his gift for reconciliation in the highest court of the land...