Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Detroit, a Roman Catholic advertising executive officiates at the wedding of his daughter. In New Mexico, an Air Force major conducts a Catholic burial service. In the high country of Bolivia, an Indian divides his time between farming and preaching the Gospel. These men are reviving an ancient form of Christian ministry that has been virtually unknown in Catholicism for centuries. They are ordained, permanent deacons...
...Died. Clara Ward, 48, petite, thunder-voiced leader of the Ward Gospel Singers; of a stroke; in Los Angeles. A Philadelphia Baptist who began singing solos in black churches at the age of five, Ward formed her own group while still a teenager. They added choreography to their act and nightclub patrons to their audience, and became one of the most successful gospel groups of the '50s and '60s. To purists who criticized their cabaret appearances-and their lavender limousine-Ward responded: "We're just traveling the highways and hedges for the Lord." -Died. LA. ("Al") Horowitz...
...Elvis on Tour, his influence is strongly felt. Thus, although it is supposed to be a documentary, most of the movie's scenes seem as spontaneous as the Sadlers Wells Ballet. The concert footage is sweaty and lifeless, the music a combination of housebroken rock and soul-less gospel...
...accident that Samuel Eliot Morison has referred to Charles William Eliot as "The enlarger of the empire." Eliot's new intellectual empire, as it brought together under the banner of "Veritas" the best and most progressive scholars, students and thinkers in the world, needed expositors, instruments to bring the gospel of the new education to the masses. Eliot found his preachers in strange places--he himself was one of the best--and nothing could express the challenge of the new Harvard better to the undergraduate body than a first rate newspaper...
TIME'S Board of Economists: Sizing Up the Year AWARE that their science is not an exact one, economists are frequently unhappy at having their forecasts accepted as gospel. Still, TIME's Board of Economists has had a remarkable record of accuracy...