Word: gospeling
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...sits down behind the organ and launches into a jazz-styled number called Do Your Own Thing. In the course of two hours he sings only six or seven pieces: long, intricate blends of soul, blues, rock, white pop and gospel, with titles like One Big Unhappy Family, I Stand Accused or Our Day Will Come! Then, tossing a handful of Isaac Hayes medallions to the crowd, he is gone, with no encores. The rite is over...
Well, as Miss Mazeppa told Gypsy ya gotta have gimmick, and Godspell's gimmick is to pretend that Christ was under thirty when he died. At least that's the way he acts in this "musical adaptation of the Gospel According to St. Matthew," which comes complete with theological endorsement by none other than Harvey Cox. Godspell's Christ is part clown, part mime, and an all-around song-and-dance man. His is not to tread the weary way of the Via Dolorosa but to hoof instead down the memory lane of Tin Pan Alley...
...classic protectionist line-that imports must be restricted in order to keep foreign products turned out by low-wage labor from bumping Americans out of jobs-is still the basic emotional pitch. Protectionists, however, have also developed a more intellectual position. Its essence is that the free-trade gospel is out of touch with the competitive reality of today's world economy...
...Britain prepared to strike its colors in New Delhi, Mohandas Gandhi, India's great apostle of nonviolence, appealed to his followers to "go out among your districts and spread the message of the Hindu-Moslem unity." But when independence came in 1947, it was the gospel of hate that swept the two new nations on the vast Indian subcontinent...
...definitions for herself and other women in the Church is revealed in her response to the question of what the Catholic Church should be doing at Harvard-Radcliffe. First, she would like to put as many students as possible in touch with the tradition of Christian community, spreading the Gospel's message, sharing the meaning of prayer, and offering alternative values and hope for one's own life. Secondly, she finds that on an often non-religious level, she and others who have found at least a tentative way of synthesizing intellectual life with a life of faith can offer...