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...quality of music heard at the festival seemed inversely related to the cost of hearing it. The Sunday morning religious concert, the best of the festival, was free to the public. Dorothy Love, singing "Come into My House" backed by her red-robed Gospel Harmonettes, gave one of the most beautiful and moving performances I have ever heard at Newport...
Friday night offered a "Battle of Music" featuring a fiddle contest, blues cutting, ballad topping, and gospel battle. This gimmick consumed a great deal of musical time and allowed Dorothy Love and the Gospel Harmonettes and the Swan Silvertones, led by Claude Jetter's beautifully controlled falsetto, only two songs apiece. The Gospel Harmonettes sang again Sunday morning but the Swan Silvertones left immediately for a revival in Belglade, Florida...
...Nazarene text copied by Abd-al-Jabbar consists of polemics against St. Paul, charging that he heretically substituted Roman customs for the authentic teachings of Jesus and falsely proclaimed him to be God. What intrigues scholars far more, however, is the presence of passages with a strikingly Gospel-like ring, including several previously unknown sayings attributed to Jesus. One such teaching, as translated by Pines: "I shall not judge men nor call them to account for their actions. He who sent me will do this...
Expectedly, there were some cool clerical appraisals of Graham's showmanship and "assembly-line approach" to salvation. Anglican Bishop John (Honest to God) Robinson paid tribute to Graham's personal integrity but dismissed his style as "the old-fashioned fundamentalist Gospel, pounding away at sin and bombarding us with texts. This is not evangelism." Summing up for the Anglican Church Times, the Rev. Cecil Northcott charged that "the Graham crusade is a redundant anachronism in a world which demands that its Christianity shall be seen in community life, in social justice, and racial honesty. To be 'saved...
...Johns (444 pages; Doubleday; $5.95), is a soap opera of flapping metaphors and dangling syntax that asks: Can an "upstanding, up-and-coming, go-getting, moneymaking, sports-minded, about-town-business-and-Yale man" chuck his $50,000-a-year job and find happiness as a minister? The gospel according to St. Johns is a turgid yes, provided that he preaches a theology based on the teachings of Rebecca West, Billy Graham, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, J. D. Salinger, Jakob Bohme and Damon Runyon. Tell No Man is No. 5 on the bestseller list...