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Word: gospels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clash unequivocably advocate acts of sedition and treason. The group attempt to evade responsibility for its actions by stating "warning--do not read these words while listening to this record," but we know what they want. Such malefactors can and should be prevented from spreading their devil's gospel of riot and mayhem among our children...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Memos From Turner | 9/19/1979 | See Source »

Given rewards and penalties, free people will figure out the smartest ways to turn shortage into surfeit. If this sounds like the businessman's typical gospel, it also makes sense. Says McLaughlin: "Somehow, Government incentives must combine with the technical knowledge that business has to create an efficient partnership. I just don't know of any other solution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View: Water, Water | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

These practitioners act as independent health-care consultants. Accepting "clients" who may be ill or just troubled, they play a role that sometimes seems to be a cross between Marcus Welby and Ann Landers. Insisting that "medicine is concerned with disease, nursing with health," they preach the gospel of preventive medicine-or "health promotion," as they call it. Says M. Lucille Kinlein, who runs a thriving practice in Hyattsville, Md.: "We give people an opportunity to think in a different concept, namely to think wellness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rebellion Among the Angels | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

...thing." As for modern art: "A Picasso, after a lifetime's practice arrives at the style of the cave drawings in the Pyrenees." Progress, for Muggeridge, is arrogant optimism, a shaking of man's tiny fist at God, and its furtherance requires "the final discrediting of the gospel of Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Bad Humor | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

Arriving in South Africa on a two-week visit. Jackson offered enraptured black audiences the stirring mix of pep rally and gospel service that has made his program PUSH-EXCEL such a hit among blacks in the U.S. At two meetings in Soweto, he characteristically led the crowds in singing traditional hymns, as well as chants that stressed black consciousness and pride. He intoned: "I am somebody; I may be poor, but I am black, beautiful and proud." Then he called on his often tearful audiences to take up the chant. Referring to the 1976 racial riots, which were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Noble Son | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

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