Word: gospeller
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jones Father & Son spreads to most of their students. All classes begin with prayers. Students argue about Bible texts as other collegians talk about sport, politics and sex. At Sunday worship and the weekday chapel services, students steep themselves in "the oldtime religion"-the intimate spiritual question, the gospel hymn, the inspirational prayer...
Over the years, by his writings and his lecture-room teaching Dewey drummed his philosophy of growth into two generations of Americans, and for millions the popular version of his doctrine became, and is, the one true gospel. But for many others, some of them disillusioned disciples, his sole achievement was that in trying to light the way he merely succeeded in putting out the stars...
...rasps out his gospel. Motes encounters a series of characters even more bizarre than himself. There is Sabbath Lily Hawks, an adolescent degenerate who takes Motes as a temporary lover. Sabbath's daddy, a fake blind man, is one of Motes's competitors in street preaching; another is Onnie Jay Holy, whose religious interest runs mainly to the collection plate. Motes's career comes to a gruesome end when he deliberately blinds himself because a mean-spirited cop has pushed his unlicensed Essex over a cliff...
...Laurin's remarks in TIME, May 5, * relative to TIME'S recent article on Bishop Fulton Sheen. I fail to comprehend how one man can contain within himself so much bigotry and hatred as does the Rev. Roy Laurin, and he a minister of Christ's gospel . . . I also wonder how much of this hatred and bigotry he has instilled in the minds and hearts of his flock...
Feverish note-taking is lacking, as is the idea of the instructor preaching a gospel. Professors employ largely the "key sentence" technique of drawing generalizations from specific reading material. They orient their classes to "social implications" by exemplifying cases of tension and conflict and then demonstrating the effects of that conflict on morality. This subtle system, overwhelming when it works, sometimes leads to a carelessness is dong assignments and gaining purely empirical knowledge...