Word: gospeller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tonight's meeting learns that the association has $5,789.43 left in its account. A campaign to write letters to Senators is discussed, and plans for a gospel sing in the local high school and a benefit play, Red Fox: Second Hanging, at $5 a head to raise more money for the lawyers. Richard Austin, a Presbyterian minister, one of the few outsiders (he moved to the area from Washington six years ago), urges everyone to be at the trial in Abingdon. He goes over the long list of ponds, drill sites, access roads and trenches that APCO intends...
...human rights," but they also denounced leftist terrorism. Echoing the Pope's address, the document cautions priests to "divest themselves of all political ideology." But it does advocate Christian action. Said the bishops: "We ask all Christians to collaborate in the changing of unjust structures and to communicate gospel values to the entire culture where we live...
...committed, as one who fought against Roman oppression and the authorities and also as one involved in the class struggle," said the Pope. "This idea of Christ as a political figure, a revolutionary, as the subversive man from Nazareth, does not tally with the church's catechesis." The Gospel and the church, he preached, must transcend all political ideologies. But while the church's mission is "not social or political," the church "cannot fail to consider man in the entirety of his being." In particular, Christians must seek a "more just and equitable distribution of goods, not only...
Bloch's unconventional theories are quite likely to raise a few hobgoblins of their own among her colleagues. One reason: they run counter to a central doctrine of psychoanalysis, the Oedipus complex. In Bloch's reworking of that Freudian gospel, the kids are attracted to a parent, not out of the incestuous impulses postulated by Freud, but as a sexual strategy to gain control over a threatening parent. One needs only to return to the original Greek myth for proof of her infanticide theory, says Bloch. Unfortunately, she adds, the master apparently missed the key point: the young...
...disease); in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Raised in the Watts district of Los Angeles, Mingus began studying bass in high school, later played with Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker before forming his own combo in New York in the mid-'50s. Influenced strongly by blues and gospel, he began writing music that highlighted the bass as a solo instrument and featured contorted harmonies and quick-changing rhythms with sudden breaks and howls. Of burly build and mercurial temper, the bearded Mingus sometimes grew violent onstage when faced by inattentive audiences and became increasingly angered over treatment of blacks...