Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jesus, according to Matthew's Gospel...
Kennedy's belief that a growing economy helps everybody to a more abundant life has been gospel for three decades. But Roach's opinion better describes today's reality: the closer one looks at the three-year-old recovery, the more it appears to be unlike any in recent memory. It is a split-level surge in which mass layoffs are continuing side by side with new hiring and heavy overtime; high-income people are making more money, while many others are working at worse jobs for lower wages than a few years ago and still others have seen...
...upset Christian traditionalists, although it fits well with new warnings against "fundamentalism" from the Pontifical Biblical Commission. Brown treats numerous familiar details as imaginary rather than literal (the dream of Pilate's wife, the darkness at noon as Christ died). And he disdains uninformed literal readings of Scripture. The Gospel texts, contends Brown, must be interpreted carefully because they were completed decades after Jesus' life and were shaped, for example, by tensions in that later period when synagogue and church were splitting permanently. In Brown's meticulous exegesis, the troublesome verse "His blood be on us and on our children...
Next was a brisk tempo 50's tune, "Janine," followed by a Williams piano solo. This solo number was Williams' chance to express himself, without the flashiness of the horns, especially Boddy Watson, to crowd him out. What Williams offered was very beautiful, if curious. He played an old gospel tune, interspersing pop harmonies with lots of polychords reminiscent of Keith Jarrett's style...
...strong voices makes the most of the music. Burlinson, as Medusa Pade, Stands, out in a sweet doo-wop number, "On the Inside." He gets great back-up, too, from his crooning fellow Egyptians. One of them, sandman as Leda Uvdapak, shines on his own in the gospel song "Amazon Grace." Stone vamps nicely in the torch song " Ancient History," though the orchestra sometimes drowns him out. The bigger numbers, too, sound as good as they look...