Word: gospeling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...program begins with an eight-minute chant during which the word cogitate is repeated incessantly. "After three or four minutes," says Actor Burgess Meredith, "people get bored and their brains begin to supply different words and entire sentences." Using this mind-bending opener, Meredith, 66, has been spreading the gospel of meditation to college campuses across the country. His two-hour routine features readings from Anthropologist Carlos Castaneda's Tales of Power, as well as music on a flute synthesizer and Tibetan oboe by Flutist Charles Lloyd. "It's heavy going," Meredith concedes, "but we've struck...
...been progressively drawn into a political and social activism that makes little reference to the theological tradition." Within the council, the same complaint comes from Eastern Orthodox members, even some from Communist East Europe who naturally like the W.C.C. political line. Then there are Protestants who favor the conservative Gospel preached by Billy Graham (see story below) and argue that the W.C.C. wants to convert the world politically, not spiritually. The Nairobi meeting will likely have to face whether these criticisms have merit. The mood is hard to figure. Three-fourths of the W.C.C. staff and 80% of the delegates...
...Italy. A Marxist with a nostalgia for Catholicism, and a known homosexual, Pasolini managed to rouse the wrath of Italy's Catholics and Communists alike. In 1961 his first major film, Accattone, drew clerical criticism for its romanticizing of pimps and prostitutes. Three years later Pasolini made The Gospel According to St. Matthew, which angered the left with its reverence. Just before his death, he completed The 120 Days of Sodoma, based on a Marquis de Sade work and set in Italy's Fascist...
...Lexington, Ky., native had said before he led 21 students in three groups, through half-hour improvisations, that his gospel music background and tendency to experiment put him among those jazz musicians who "play to communicate, not to play for themselves...
With a womanliness that is more maternal than sexual, Hopkins is most convincing when she evokes the fire and flood of up-tempo gospel numbers. But she is no blues singer. When neither love nor liquor could quench Bessie's misery, her harsh sounds of loneliness could bring an entire audience to tears. Bessie sang from pain, Linda sings from joy. She cannot crush her optimism. Hopkins ain't Bessie, it is true. She is, nonetheless, a champ...