Word: gospeling
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...repentance and amendment of life," Thomas was cheerfully splashing his life story across the front pages of the Sunday newspapers. As he told it, his plight was that female parishioners continually threw themselves at him. Said Thomas: "When I look back upon my years as a minister of the Gospel, I am by no means cast down by the knowledge that I shall never again wear the clerical collar. Truth to tell, I am a little surprised that I should have worn it so long, in the face of the martyrdom I have suffered at the hands of women...
...mountain overlooking the Mediterranean, a Detroit-born Baptist minister and a staff of 17 are beaming a constant stream of religious broadcasts over five giant "curtain antennas" that reach across Asia to the Pacific. Broadcasts in the other direction-to Spain-carry on to Latin America. The Gospel message is carried in Russian, Spanish, Latvian, Hebrew, Arabic, Swedish, Portuguese, French, English, Italian and German. Within three months, Armenian, Georgian and Uzbek will be added; within a year, Chinese and Hindustani. And the Soviets have never tried...
...Grandison Singers-three guileless-looking Negro girls in their 20s and a tenor-pianist-combine all three styles. They prefer to "take it apart and lay it on the table." When they put it together again it comes out something that might be called "distilled" gospel-a style that forgoes the screaming, stamping frenzies common to many a small church choir but that retains the slogging, sanctified beat of jazz and rhythm 'n' blues. As a close-harmony quartet, the Grandisons exude a curiously mingled air of sex and sanctity...
...Francisco's hungry i last week Sisters Mary and Helen Grandison and Cousin Dottie Webster, hips swaying under plain blue dresses, had every bottle on the bar rattling as they belted out old gospel favorites with poise and trombone clarity. The Grandisons have had little musical training. They left the sawdust trail only this year, after singing in churches all over the South, to try the nightclub circuit. The four write their own arrangements, frequently substitute new words in standard spirituals-e.g. Swing down, sweet chariot/ Stop and let me ride/ Rock me, Lord/ Rock me, Lord/ Rock...
Their own catching, lilting, hand-clap rhythm has helped establish the Grandisons as the freshest gospel-singing group in the land. And despite their switch from churches to liquor-serving clubs, the girls have no regrets. Says Mary Grandison: People in the nightclubs accept the music more than people in the churches. It's more quiet here. It's almost reverent...