Word: gospeling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...article in the Journal of Educational Psychology declared: "Both the black and white teachers studied emitted few reinforcements and those emitted tended to be traditional (distant reinforcers), although most teachers stated a preference for proximity reinforcers (material rewards and close personal contact)." It is Humpty Dumpty's gospel: "Impenetrability, that's what...
...doled out according to Motown Chief Berry Gordy's private caste system; the Supremes, the Temptations, Marvin Gaye, and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles had first choice. Such low-priority groups as the Spinners, the Four Tops and the Pips received the leavings. "We wanted to do a gospel album long before Aretha," says Gladys, "and Berry saved the soft songs for Diana Ross." But in 1967 a catchy soul rocker, I Heard It Through the Grapevine, sailed onto the charts for the Pips. Two other singles had scored for them by the time their Motown contract expired...
...their albums have some pure, hard rockers: Burn Down the Mission, Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting, The Bitch Is Back, Bennie and the Jets. Add the country-and-western and gospel variants the pair have worked through the years, and a picture of astonishing versatility begins to emerge...
...charging that the American CIA, which helped to finance some European-unity groups back in the 1950s, has been secretly marshaling the yes vote. In a sermon at St. Paul's Cathedral, the Bishop of London tried to elevate the level of debate. Taking his text from the Gospel of St. John ("There shall be one fold and one shepherd"), the bishop implied that the Lord himself was a staunch pro-Marketeer...
...Gnostics were imaginative religious scavengers who borrowed freely from various sources to furnish their own scriptures. But they evidently felt a particular need to co-opt and corrupt elements of their rival, Christianity. Typically, two of the best-known tracts from the Nag Hammadi library, the previously published Gospel of Thomas and Gospel of Philip, contain sayings of Jesus purportedly collected by two of his Apostles but often twisted by the Gnostics to fit their own radically ascetic, relentlessly spiritual outlook...