Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MOST REPUGNANT strain of conservative thinking that has surfaced publically at Harvard and elsewhere recently is the "Now let us mourn for Indochina" school of revised history. Norman Podhoretz has made this his new gospel, preaching on The New York Times Op-Ed page and in his latest book, Why We Were in Vietnam. Closer to home, members of the Conservative Club have endorsed the message in their newspaper. The Salient, and in small rallies...
HOSPITALIZED. Teddy Pendergrass, 31, rhythm-and-blues singer whose gospel-flavored ballads and sexy disco records have sold in the millions (Life Is a Song Worth Singing, The More I Get the More I Want): with severe neck injuries; in Philadelphia. Pendergrass, injured when he lost control of his Rolls-Royce and smashed into two trees, suffered partial paralysis...
...Andre's sheer determination to spread his gospel of the surreal eggs Wally on to respond. It's hard to know exactly what sets him off. Perhaps, he perceives in Andre's calm mellifluous tone a lack of confidence that gives him leeway to speak up loudly and clearly. And that's just how Wally responds, with a diatribe of his own, against the unnecessarily highbrow. The world for him is real, with cockroaches, and stale coffee, and if the cockroaches stay out of his coffee, he'll be happy. He huffs and sputters, but he says what...
...Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash did a little casual singing in a Memphis studio. Perkins is hardly discernible; Cash can't really be heard; but Elvis and Jerry Lee go toe to toe on a little R&B and a lot of gospel. It's like going to chapel inside a Seeburg...
...Anwar Sadat used to call him "that crazy boy," but the consensus of most Middle East analysts is that Gaddafi is as crazy as a fox. To be sure, he is an erratic and irascible revolutionary, convinced of his own genius and wholly committed to spreading his own political gospel, an eccentric mix of Islam and socialism that is summed up in a three-volume work called The Green Book. But it is clear that he also has a broad streak of sanity and shrewdness. "It would be a mistake to underestimate him," says a State Department analyst. "His accomplishments...