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...something in common with Methodist hymns I had learned as a boy in Southern Illinois, and real kinship with the gospel music I occasionally heard coming from Black churches in that long-ago time when " separate" was still the law of the land, never mind about equal. Unaccountable as it may seem now, however, in the early 1950s, real Black popular music was almost never played on "while" radio stations. There was considerable consternation a few years later when people like Pat Boone started issuing Bowdlerdized 'cover", records of Black rock songs, and we all know where that path eventually...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee Nixes VES Grade Change | 6/6/1983 | See Source »

Discussions among computer makers tend to be high-tech talk tinged with evangelism. This year portable computers were gospel. As many as 40 companies have introduced portables that range in size from relatively bulky 30-pounders to lap-size models that weigh about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best and Worst of Times | 5/30/1983 | See Source »

...Willie Mae Ford Smith is a round, sweet-faced woman with a shrewd yet sentimental eye, a determined spirit and a powerfully moving voice, now somewhat cracked by long, if lively service to the Lord. She is a beloved gospel singer, much looked to for moral and artistic guidance by people in her profession. Say Amen, Somebody is a documentary that follows her on her exhausting rounds, from bustling home to jumping church services to emotionally galvanic singing conventions. Following in her wake, the audience meets her mentor (Thomas A. Dorsey, a onetime blues singer and composer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Joyful Noises | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

...hundred years from now, seminarians will continue to study heretical teachings like Jansenism of the 1600s. To that list will be added "Mansourism," a 20th century heresy that taught its adherents to place civil law above the Gospel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 11, 1983 | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

Hugh Sidey has never been better than in his story on "The Right Rev. Ronald Reagan." I have been a minister in the United Methodist Church for 40 years, and it pains me when my colleagues in the pulpit confuse the Gospel with political opinions and self-righteousness with justice. When the President of the U.S. falls into such blasphemy, my pain is compounded many times over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 11, 1983 | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

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