Word: gospeling
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...secretary of the league, Menon gave soapbox speeches, got sympathetic left-wing intellectuals like Laski, Bertrand Russell and Stafford Cripps to preach the gospel of Indian independence. Menon lived in a dreary bed-sitter in Camden Town in London's working-class borough of St. Pancras, eked out a living by writing occasional legal briefs, often lacked enough money for a meal. He became involved in Labor Party politics, served as a member of the St. Pancras borough council, where he is still remembered as "the best library chairman we ever had." For his work, he became...
...already learned, before the author has finished introducing him) threatens the pornographers, and the bookseller accepts the collective guilt of his healed cripples and goes to prison for them. Rather unnecessarily, Bloomfield has one of his characters point out the symbolism. Samson, then, is saviour, after all, and his gospel is a passage from Albert Camus: "I hate virtue that is only smugness; I hate the frightful morality of the world, and I hate it because it ends, just like absolute cynicism, in demoralizing men and keeping them from running their own lives with their own just measures of meanness...
...television program centered around film clips taken at the 14th Congress of the United States National Student Association last August. It highlighted the speeches of impasioned liberals urging the abolition of the House Committee on Un-American Activities and of equally fervent conservatives attempting to spread their gospel in the wilderness of overwhelmingly liberal...
...Baroque Gospel. I Musici is on the road an exhausting eight months out of the year, and although it can command $2,000 a performance, it frequently settles for less in small towns, where it wants to spread the baroque gospel. (The biggest money is in Germany, the least in the U.S., where travel costs are higher.) Although I Musici's repertory includes "more modern music than our audiences like to think we know" (Barber, Britten, Bartok), attendance falls if the orchestra plays too many contemporary compositions-or even too much Mozart. For better or worse, the orchestra...
...lesser bars to church reunion. Many Roman Catholics also agree that there is too much Latin in the Mass; the Vatican is aswarm with requests from bishops for permission to have at least the parts of the Mass addressed to the congregation (such as the Epistle and the Gospel) read in the vernacular. But Latin, it seems, is here to stay...