Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Four incumbents, Francis Duehay '55, Mary Ellen Preusser, David Wylie and Saundra Graham, received endorsements by large margins. The convention also voted strongly in favor of endorsing challenger David Sullivan, but another challenger, Alvin Thompson, barely squeaked onto the ticket...
...Graham has seldom suffered from the usual suspicions of Gantryism and fraud. He has always possessed a bright, generous and translucent character that reminds Frady of Melville's Billy Budd. The child of hard-working North Carolina farm people, Billy grew up so alarm ingly full of energy that his parents once took him to a doctor to see if he was nor mal. He was: an intense, passionate normality has been one of the reasons for his astonishing success. As an adolescent, he went dusting wildly over North Carolina back roads in his father's Plymouth, necked...
After the Florida Bible Institute, and a lifelong commitment to Christ that he made one night on the 18th green of the school's golf course, Graham knocked around as a Youth for Christ evangelist. In 1949 he went to Los Angeles, pitched his "Canvas Cathedral" and began the eight-week crusade that abruptly launched him, at 31 , toward his great spiritual celebrity. William Randolph Hearst, heartened by the anti-Communist messages that Billy packed into his sermons, sent his editors a memo: "Puff Graham." Hearst reporters descended on the Canvas Cathedral; before long, A.P., I.N.S., TIME, Newsweek, Quick...
...Graham's ministry, as his critics have emphasized, became utterly entangled with the powers of this earth. He was close to Richard Nixon for years, but at last grew retchingly ill when he read the transcripts of the White House tapes. After much puzzlement, he blamed Nixon's behavior on "sleeping pills and demons." Graham has always expressed a truculent love of authority, a desire for social discipline, for a certain orderliness that he seems to consider almost a necessity of the soul. He has been capable of aggressive anti-intellectualism. He displayed what Frady calls his "capacity...
...Graham endures, a religious conglomerate and spiritual institution, be loved by millions, a man who in his worldwide crusades has been personally beheld by more people than anyone else in history. He has gone on, preaching to his multitudes the snares and sinfulness of the world and the glories of heaven to come. "Boy," he once said, "I sure hope they have a golf course up there...