Word: grahamism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...growth of Protestantism with intimidation and physical violence: and the "freehand, fly-by-night missionaries sent out by pentecostal churches, by fundamentalist societies, by their own perfervid wills." Gill also casts a skeptical eye on the nondenominational. evangelical Philippines Crusade, which sprang up in the wake of Billy Graham's 1956 tour through Southeast Asia. The evangelists, he says, are a ticking time bomb. "The doctrinal havoc, the personal tensions, the communal wreckage will come later as Stateside purse strings become puppet strings even upon the pleasant, well-meaning young men directing the crusade . . . How brief the independence...
...Donnell will probably send Otis Graham against Bob Crook, although he is toying with the idea of moving captain Phil Hepner down from 147. If he does this, Ted Reese will move up to meet Joe Noble...
...hypocritical elders. In the '30s the worker at the barricades shook his fist at the bloated capitalist. In the '40s the man of freedom locked wills with the totalitarian zealot. In the '50s the basic confrontation - which all along has preoccupied writers, including W. H. Auden, Graham Greene. T. S. Eliot-may well be that of the psychiatrist and the man of God. Germany's Friedrich Deich. 49, is not professionally up to the literary company his idea keeps, but his loose-jointed, didactic first novel does trace the conflict back to its origins...
Thus tersely, in his bestselling The Quiet American, Novelist Graham Greene described Cao Daism, a gaudy gallimaufry of Buddhism, Confucianism and Christianity whose followers number at least one million and play a significant part in the confused politics of South Viet...
...reason for this doubt was the action of two Elis who rose after the benediction, clapped each other on the back and yelled, "By Jove, we're committed." Although criticized by the Daily News as against Yale's "highest values: free and rational thought," Graham was not without defenders. One sophomore accused Graham's detractors of being "atheists," who to him were all "5 ft., 6 in., popeyed, pimply, squeaky and scrawny...