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...America as Harlem's Lenox Avenue at 125th Street. The show, with all new music and lyrics, is saucy with black urban humor. Its talk is jumping jivernacular, its walk is a big-city strut, its dances have a blowtorch frenzy, and its songs range from a warm gospel glow to the rock beat of a riveter mining asphalt...
...little blue man is no fool. Gospel-style Singer June Hunt, 29, whose first single this is, is the stepdaughter and one of the heirs of the late billionaire H.L. Hunt. Last year she signed a five-year contract with the financially troubled Stax Records of Memphis and made her recording debut just before Christmas with rusty-oldie Little Blue Man. An LP will be released this spring. In the past, June has promoted some of her stepfather's right-wing causes, such as the Youth Freedom Speakers, even as she built her career, singing and playing the guitar...
Full Meaning. A section on liturgy warns that Catholic preachers must carefully explain biblical references about Jews that could be understood as pejorative characterizations of the whole people, as for example in the Gospel according to John. The guidelines point out that Old and New Testaments "illumine and explain each other," yet they also state that "the New Testament brings out the full meaning...
Here, for instance, is the American as son-of-Godfather: Bill Bonanno's thought processes, writes Sheed, "reminded me of Yogi Berra reading Gospel comics." Or the American as prototypical, George Meany-like labor leader, with "the gravelly voice, abraded in drafty meeting halls, the face of many weathers, and that style-watchful, patient, sufficiently charming for the political side of things. He tends to be built for sitting up all night, like a beer bottle, and his backside is probably as callused by now as his hands...
...Jesus. Schooled in the thought of Martin Heidegger and Sören Kierkegaard, Bultmann was convinced that the Christian message, or kerygma (from the Greek "proclamation"), must be something more existentially powerful. One clue to the message, he thought, lay in the beliefs of the first Christian communities where the Gospel was preached, and their perception of Christ from their own situation in life...