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Malcolm X had been a pimp, a cocaine addict and a thief. He was an unashamed demagogue. His gospel was hatred: "Your little babies will get polio!" he cried to the "white devils." His creed was violence: "If ballots won't work, bullets will...
...Gospel as Critique. There are plenty of clergymen who stoutly defend the council's social-action stand. Episcopal Bishop Francis Bloy of Los Angeles says: "A careful study of the teachings of our blessed Lord makes it quite clear, I believe, that he expects his followers to be totally involved in the total life of the world." In December, the Lutheran Church of America sent its 7,000 ministers a pamphlet explaining the council's goals...
Speed sells cars. So says the gospel, according to Ford and Chrysler. (General Motors takes a different road to the bank.) Last year Ford laid out $5,000 per car souping up its racing engines, only to lose the "stock car" championship to Chrysler, which installed custom-built, $12,000 "hemispherical-head" engines in its Plymouths. That was too heady for Bill France, owner of Florida's Daytona International Speedway and president of NASCAR, who has the funny idea that somebody besides a factory ought to be able to compete in the contest. He banned the "hemi-head"-which...
...story of Jesus unfolds, midrash, myths, Gospel and all, in a series of stately tableaux, each as literal and conventional as religious calendar art. In the first scene, the three Magi ride toward Bethlehem through a night drenched in blue. Of the miracles performed by Christ, Stevens offers easy-to-picture faith healing rather than such tricky feats as loaves and fishes and water-walking. Then he lets his whole drama turn on the raising of Lazarus from the dead, a much-debated episode that he underscores with the Gloria-in-excess of Handel's Messiah. Handel nonetheless seems...
...roll. In Lovin' Feelin', Spector used two basses, three electric guitars, three pianos, a harpsichord, twelve violins, a ten-voice chorus and four brawny percussionists. His vocalists, a pair of 23-year-old white Californians who call themselves the Righteous Brothers, imitate the Negro gospel wail, a sound that Spector prizes as the "soulful yearning that every teen-ager understands...