Word: gospeller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Illuminated codices were ripped apart for the gold in their bindings; bronze corroded; only a few Gospel books and a quantity of gold ornaments-since gold does not oxidize and is incorruptible -survived these ravages. No mainstream of civilization left less behind it than this early climax of Irish culture, which took place between the 6th and 9th centuries A.D. The Irish tradition absorbed the Vikings; it digested the animal motifs and decorative knotwork of Scandinavia; but it could not survive the English. The English Renaissance meant the Irish decadence...
...main cultural component of the weekend will take place Sunday when the Yale Black Gospel Choir, Harvard's Kuumba Singers and the Nzinga African Dance Troupe of Yale will perform. A black poetry reading will be part of the event...
...apace. A man in Detroit may momentarily capture national attention by telling the President that Panama, Taiwan, or loans to Eastern Europe mean nothing to him by comparison with getting a job. But the incident, while potentially photogenic, is soon forgotten, as civil rights are championed abroad and the gospel according to Jimmy is spooned out at home like so much codeine. Guaranteed to make you feel better...
...congratulated on the article "Gulyas and the Gospel" [Sept. 19]. I happened to be in Hungary up until the day of Mr. Graham's arrival and visited with a number of pastors who were being persecuted by the very people responsible for inviting Billy Graham to come. Many of the pastors feared that the West would accept their government's ploy as proof that there was true religious freedom in Hungary...
...Labor leaders blamed the common-situs loss on their own failure to realize how hard a lobbying effort would be needed. They had no such excuse last week, when the House voted on the minimum wage; the AFL-CIO deployed 100 "educators on labor law reform" to spread its gospel. Result: another series of jolts...