Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fielded questions about what is gospel and what is apocrypha in the life of Robertson, the candidate professed to see a political plus. "You are proving that I am a human being," he told reporters. Being human is one trait that a growing number of candidates from both parties have firmly established...
...basketball moment last month. In 1960 Newell coached Oscar Robertson and Jerry West to the Olympic gold medal by an average of more than 40 points a game. "What's the fun in that?" he asks. Along with other coaching ambassadors, he began traveling the world and spreading the gospel. "Now there are good basketball players in Japan, the Philippines, Turkey, Israel, Lebanon ((a Beirut pivotman carried Syracuse to the last N.C.A.A. final)), all over Western and Eastern Europe, Africa, almost everywhere. We're not going backward; they're just coming forward. I don't think that...
...dedication," he traveled to the famed Superdome. There, at a meeting with black Catholics, Bishop Joseph Howze of Biloxi, Miss., told John Paul that "racism is a major hindrance to full development of black leadership within the church." John Paul responded that racial diversity shows that Christ's "liberating Gospel" belongs to all groups. He also paid tribute to the "providential role" that was played by Baptist Leader Martin Luther King...
Mswati is adamant about protecting the sanctity of Swazi tribal rituals. Three months ago the young King arrested the British leader of a fundamentalist Christian movement, the South African-based Rhema Gospel Church, and has kept him locked up ever since. The proselytizing foreigner, who is expected to appear in court this month, faces charges of sedition for daring to suggest that certain Swazi traditions, such as the reed-dance ceremony, might be "ungodly and immoral." As the people of Swaziland are learning, Fire Eyes does not take lightly any kind of disrespect...
...thus inappropriate to America's pluralism. Equally inappropriate, says Faye Wattleton, president of Planned Parenthood, are the "shades of a superculture idea." She asks, "Why does Mr. Wattenberg believe that it is only the mouths of the upper class and presumably white upper class that can preach the gospel of democracy...