Word: gospeling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prominent American revolutionary wears a frayed blue necktie, likes to cuss and preaches a shake-'em-up gospel. "Too many big businessmen are just sitting on their butts!" he thunders. And: ''We talk a lot about human rights, but I don't know of any human right that is more important than...
...film's vague story starts at the peak of Freed's career, when he was spreading the rock gospel on New York radio and staging riotous live shows at Brooklyn's Paramount Theater. Much of the screenplay appears to be Hollywood fantasy. In his desire to pander to adolescents, Writer John Kaye has transformed his hero into a Christlike figure: kids grovel at the deejay's feet while rockhating adults hound him literally to his death. The real Freed, a self-destructive man who died at age 43 in 1965, is far more fascinating than Kaye...
...place of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, they offer their own-a gospel no more appealing to one searching for truth than moldy bread or rotten meat is to one looking for food...
...effective recent Catholic exponent of ancient dogma is Küng's colleague at Tübingen, the Rev. Walter Kasper. In his major 1974 work (English edition: Jesus the Christ; Paulist Press; 1976), Kasper rejected Küng's idea that the early councils distorted the Gospel with Greek concepts. Rather, he says, the councils did the opposite. They "dehellenized" the church, using the language of Greek philosophy to express beliefs that "shattered all of its perspectives...
...bridge connecting the twin towers of Manhattan's World Trade Center. The Beatles-or pretty good substitutes-are alive, well and together in a corn-belt Shangri-la called Heartland, U.S.A. The Age of Aquarius has dawned again in Central Park, and the hippies are back selling their gospel of love and kindness. And down at the high school they are wearing pegged pants and leather jackets, as John Travolta, the heartthrob of the '70s, gives a belated tour...