Word: gospeller
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right to work" legislation, speaks with the voice of the church and follows a "Catholic line." What confounds the confusion is the "official" label in the masthead of virtually all the 104 diocesan weeklies. Unlike secular editors who wistfully hope that readers may take their editorial views as gospel, many a thoughtful Catholic editor wishes that readers would...
...frankly appalled by the [aftereffects] of lobotomy and similar operations-abusive and obscene language, uninhibited sexual drive, obnoxious mannerisms, stealing, suggestibility . . . The great neuro-surgical revolution has proved abortive; it has not emptied our state hospitals." Later, "much the same panegyrics attended the spread of the shock gospel as had attended the spread of lobotomy and -in a previous generation-the spread of phrenology." Electric shock is in a way a "punitive" treatment, Dr. Bailey suggested, and should be limited to the involutional anxious melancholic, a type of case in which it is sometimes spectacularly effective...
...happy man; he knew what he wanted to do, and he had the talent to do it with offhand distinction. A minister of the Methodist church, Paul Hutchinson brought the lively and articulate intellect of an exceptionally able journalist to his selected task: "Communicating and commending the Christian Gospel to this age." He was still vigorously communicating when he died last Sunday in Beaumont, Texas of a ruptured aorta...
...firmly on the apostolic recognition that there are ''varieties of gifts but the same Spirit and varieties of service but the same Lord." There are multitudes whom Mr. Graham may reach who are not now and never will be touched by a more sophisticated interpretation of the Gospel . . . There is a touch of presumption, if not worse, in most of the polemic against Mr. Graham -the assumption that the critics are able effectively to reach this modern Babylon, an as sumption flatly contradicted by the facts...
...Greek Orthodox Church in the town of Kythrea during a service and shouted to the 40 worshiping villagers: "Stand up and face the wall!" Then, with a single pistol shot, one of the hooded men killed Lay Reader Manoli Pierides while he was in the act of chanting the Gospel-apparently on account of Pierides' British sympathies. A policeman was shot to death in a cafe; two more British soldiers were killed...