Word: gospeling
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...most important newspapers, such as People's Daily, have been put on a starvation diet. Readers inside China hardly complain: there will just be less space in which not to find the news. Only exceptions to the paper austerity program are exports. By Mao's order, the gospel according to Peking is still flowing as freely as ever to the uncommitted countries of Latin America and Africa...
Mahalia Jackson, 49, says that until recently she assumed that Jerusalem was in heaven. Last week America's great Negro Gospel singer carried her "joyful noise for the Lord" to Israel, and the effect she made on Israelis was just what it had been all spring on the audiences of her first extended European tour-mesmeric...
...been that way ever since 1947 when New Orleans-born Mahalia Jackson recorded a Gospel song called Move On Up a Little Higher for a small record company. The disk sold a whopping 2,000,000 copies, and Mahalia who had sung Gospel songs in neighborhood churches since her childhood, turned her mention from her Chicago beauty shop to push her professional career. From the start audiences recognized her, as did London's New Statesman, as "the most majestic voice of faith" of her generation. The obvious sincerity of Mahalia's belief moves audiences even when they cannot...
Moffett, 39, a burly (220 lbs.) former professional boxer turned priest, decided to postpone preaching the Gospel and concentrate on trying to improve living conditions. "What would hungry, sick and suffering people think of a new and beautiful church being built?" he asked himself as he set up a tent to live in. "They would probably hate it," he decided...
...bungalows, charges $10 for a single room). Sailing up the chain, travelers experience even more the feel of how the Grecian islands are creatures of the sea, bound by myth and religion, commerce, a mystical aloneness: Kos, where Hippocrates was born; Patmos, where the monastery exhibits the St. Mark Gospel written in silver on 33 leaves of purple vellum (and where the hard-scrabbling islanders, says a visitor, "live on packages from relatives in New Jersey"); wooded Samos, divided from Turkey by a spectacular channel; Chios, one of Homer's many birthplaces; Lesbos, where Sappho wrote her molten poems...