Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rising Northern industrialism than with languishing Southern agrarianism. From Degler's portraits, Cassius Marcellus Clay of Kentucky, Hinton Rowan Helper (author of The Impending Crisis of the South, 1857) and Daniel Goodloe of North Carolina and Henry Ruffner of Virginia--citizens of the antebellum Other South--preached the same gospel of economic development that Henry Grady and the New South spokesmen would advance in the 1880s. In both cases, class interest in an industrial economy obviously overleapt Southern interest in slavery. But the connections between the Clays and the Gradys--unexplored origins of the New South, perhaps--can get only...
That kind of complaint goes back at least as far as Woody Guthrie's eloquent pleas for the migratory workers during the Depression. Commercial country was born in the 1920s out of an amalgamation of American folk, British airs and hymns, and Negro gospel and blues. The New York record companies sent their men South to make wax discs of such performers as Samantha Bumgarner and Fiddlin' John Carson. Then they found the Carter Family, hillbilly virtuosos from Virginia, and the first idol of country, Jimmie Rodgers (1897-1933). Country was off and running...
...will set the world aright. Others view Christian life as a "sign of contradiction" in a pagan civilization-to see their role as an example of selfless living in a selfish world. "The council will not give us an answer to everything," says one of the young organizers. "The Gospel is a call, not an answer...
...There were some priests in prison," Ferrera--who came to Cambridge from northern Portugal six months ago--continued. "There was a young priest, a nice priest, near my place where I came from, and he was put in prison merely for teaching the Gospel and when he preached about peace talking a little against the government because it was not following the Gospel...
...neither diversion nor academics attracted '60s students. The movies showed a world outside the university town, and unlike other forms of literature they were still unburdened by the gospel-like critical judgments of an earlier generation. There was something fresh even in old movies. What the movies represent, Pauline Kael wrote at the end of the '60s, is that "the world doesn't work the way the schoolbooks said it did and we are different from what our parents and teachers expected us to be." Kael felt that way in her youth, and by the '60s the feeling was widespread...