Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...From the opening introspective Worden poem to the closing Mitchell observation-that the space program was worth the cost and effort if only for the awakened desire in the individual to spread the gospel of humanism-the article discloses the gentler instincts of man so often obscured by his more obvious desire for adventure and success. Like so many apostles, these splendid astronauts attest to a paradox: the more knowledgeable man becomes, the more he realizes his limitations, his ignorance and his insignificance...
ARETHA FRANKLIN: AMAZING GRACE (Atlantic, 2 LPs). The high priestess of soul returns memorably to the gospel style in which she started...
...here-and-now that it has accepted, even blessed, existing social arrangements-to the point of aligning itself against the majority of its faithful. It has been so involved with legalistic arguments over damnation that it has forgotten the mystery of salvation-the dominant theme of the Gospel. The Vatican, rather than God, has become the focus of discussions among Catholics...
...high priestess of a new nutrition religion, she preaches a gospel that many scientists and academicians find heretical. According to Davis, who holds a master's degree in biochemistry from the University of Southern California School of Medicine, malnutrition is at the root of most of America's health, emotional and social problems, and only proper nutrition offers the populace a chance for salvation...
...Sincerity" first entered common English usage in the early sixteenth century, denoting the purity, soundness, and non-adulteration of anything from alcoholic brews to the Gospel. It soon became associated, most strikingly in Shakespeare, with the moral virtue of wholeness, integrity, lack of dissimulation or pretense. Trilling introduces his concept of sincerity through Polonius's sage advice to be "to thine own self true," that "thou canst not be false to any man." From this point on to its decline in the nineteenth century, the paradigm of sincerity was an idea of self imbedded in social consciousness, with a keen...