Word: gospeleer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dust. For a decade Yenan's loess caves had generated the trained personnel and the gospel of Red China. Young Communists of other Asiatic lands (including Sanzo Nozaka, brains of the Japanese party) had sheltered and studied there. In remote corners of Asia, the faithful would hear of the fall of Yenan with something of the inner shock that word of the fall of Mecca might bring to the Moslem world...
Chief postwar problem of the diocese, says Bishop Batty mildly, is the tendency of chaplains to become unpopular in countries favoring Communism. But he emphasized that the duties of the English clergyman abroad are confined to the spiritual welfare of Britons, do not entail spreading the gospel. Batty's more poignant memories of Russia include the Russian clergy's "unfortunate custom of kissing each other when meeting. . . . This is all very well for the Russian clergymen, all of whom are well-equipped with long and spiky beards, but it can be most uncomfortable for a clean-shaven English...
...Take Monsignor Fulton Sheen, the chief radio artist of the Roman Church in this country. That priest showed conclusively in a recent broadcast, which TIME Magazine reported, what we have known since the days of the Reformation, namely this: that his church has very little in common with the Gospel of Jesus...
These days droves of fresh young M.A.'s and Ph.D.'s who proctored here leave Cambridge every year, anxious, among other things, to spread the gospel of thoroughly supervised examinations much as Plato's pupils left Athens to tell the world about the soul's immortality...
Neutra met Wright at Sullivan's funeral in 1924. Soon afterwards, with his wife and mother-in-law, he paid a long visit to Wright's Wisconsin home, Taliesin. Neutra named his eldest son for Wright, went forth to preach the gospel of modern architecture on lecture tours which took him from Rome to Tokyo. He long ago fashioned a style of his own, and made mass housing his main interest...