Word: gospeling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...answer is civil liberties gospel: if you fail to protect even the most odious and unpopular speech, you risk undermining all free speech. Basic to the First Amendment, the lesson is clear enough to the courts, which have struck down Skokie's attempts to keep the Nazis from demonstrating. Last week the Supreme Court refused to stop Nazi picketing planned for this Sunday in Skokie...
...voters in St. Paul had overturned a similar law there, the Wichita vote seemed further evidence of a backlash against the gay rights laws passed by approximately three dozen U.S. communities-including Seattle, Washington, D.C., and Tucson, Ariz. In a victory telegram sent to Wichita's Concerned Citizens, Gospel Singer Anita Bryant, who led a similar repeal campaign last year in Dade County, Fla., said: "It is now obvious that the will of the American people is to return this country to profamily, Bible morality...
...some cases the preposterous plots are exceeded by the presumptuous flackery. Templeton's publishers announce that during his promotional tour he will "break the last taboo on national TV." Rader's novel was unveiled at a Manhattan disco with a gospel sing-along starring Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, William F. Buckley and Walter Cronkite. Stein & Day let it be known that The Final Conclave was printed under extraordinary security lest it be "suppressed." By whom? The publisher didn't say; surely a banning in Boston or a burning in Butte would have hyped the book...
MARRIED. Aretha Franklin, 36, long-reigning queen of soul, rhythm 'n' blues, gospel and nearly every other popular music territory; and Glynn Turman, 31, handsome actor of stage (A Raisin in the Sun), film (Cooley High) and television (Peyton Place); in a ceremony performed by the bride's father, the Rev. Clarence Franklin, in his Baptist church, with music by the Four Tops; she for the second time, he for the third...
...final witness to appear before the five-member subcommittee, Geneen's testimony epitomized the line of defense used by the cor-poration to fend off accusations of wrongdoing and illegal interference with the orderly electora' process of what was then the leading democracy in Latin America. According to the gospel of Geneen and the ten ITT executives summoned before the subcommittee, "all that ITT did was to present its views, concerns, and ideas to various departments of the U.S. Government." These actions, they clamed, were not only ITT's "constitutional right," but were also the conglomerate's "direct obligation...