Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Games for the Superintelligent. You probably have seen him on one of those American Express "You don't recognize me, but you will when you see my name" commercials. Whatever your previous acquaintance with James F. "Jim" Fixx, you know he is America's best-known preacher of the gospel of running. He has presented the swelling ranks of runners with a sequel to The Complete Book of Running (which, he acknowledges in the foreword to Jim Fixx's Second Book of Running, may have been titled a touch presumptuously...
Katzner, after having spent the afternoon spreading the FAST gospel at Shea Stadium, gave an earnest exhortation on why he wants "economics kept outside of the chalk lines." He also confided that a chance for national exposure barely slipped from his grasp this morning when he was bumped from Good Morning America in favor of Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin...
...record, I'm Gonna Sing consists of 14 tracks: four spirituals, three gospel numbers, three soul numbers, a jubilee, two recitations, and a chant. Spirituals and jubilees were the traditional Afro-American forms, out of which grew gospel and soul. Outside of that, I really can't tell you anything about this genre except that, regardless of musicology, it works. Kuumba was formed ten years ago to plumb the genius and majesty of the Black heritage; I'm Gonna Sing accomplishes this...
...best tracks on the album are by an ensemble called The Brothers, a subgroup of Kuumba tenors and basses. On Side One The Brothers sing a gospel, "One More Day," that achieves the fusion I was talking about, what Tennyson called "pleasure and pain in exquisite extremes...
Alec McCowen, British actor, on how he settled on the subject of his prizewinning one-man stage presentation, The Gospel According to St. Mark: "This was the greatest script I had ever found...