Word: gospeling
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...hard questions about where all this needed money has gone to. It's time for teaching fellows to get together and bargain for their rights. I think that we should see the Corporation and Dean Dunlop in the role of money changers and not revealers of the Harvard Financial Gospel; their job is to honestly and fairly make available the resources of Harvard for a better educational experience and an institution more dedicated to serving the needs of social change. This is not happening...
...relationship to the Kingled movement, failing to see any connection between that movement and the school prayer decisions. The media had so conditioned me to think of King as a "civil rights leader" that I was several times surprised to remember that he was also a minister of the gospel...
Sonny is black. The kind of music he creates is a blend of jazz and gospel, with a glossy Stan Kenton sound and a chorus singing Sonny's simple lyrics-about peace and freedom, with a little protest thrown in. His career began in Cincinnati, where he wrote his first song before he was eight. Through a draft-board mix-up in 1943, Sonny was tapped for the Marines when he was only 14, got out, then served in the Navy from 1945 to 1948. By the time he was discharged, he had become a good clarinetist and saxophonist...
...bantering with such guests as Marcel Marceau or Lily Tomlin. While he occasionally joins them in a number, Flip is careful not to hog the camera. He and Henry have also made a point of spacing Flip's pet routines-the sassy Geraldine and the high-gaited gospel preacher-to ensure that they don't wear out their welcome...
Sobbing and Swooning. Her eyes were big and soulful. Her body was broad, her legs heavy, her voice a trombone blare. Propounding the "Foursquare Gospel," she dressed sometimes in gauzy robes that floated out behind her like angel wings. Sometimes she appeared in the uniform of a sailor, fireman or traffic cop ("Stop! You are breaking God's law!"). She illustrated her sermons with skits or pantomimes and composed oratorios for a chorus of 500. The effect of all this was hallucinogenic. Five thousand listeners gasped and sobbed and swooned...