Word: grahamism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four years ago, the guard towers spindled out from Saigon mile after mile along the main roads, outposts of frightened men in a teeming darkness of shadowy figures and shadowy hate. One such guard tower was a central factor in Graham Greene's Quiet American, a semi-novel purporting to display the hopeless struggle of French colonialism to save the truncated country from the onrushing tide of the Communist Viet Minh. As late as two years ago, touring Columnist Joseph Alsop pronounced South Viet Nam doomed. And the French, embarrassed at seeing the U.S. succeed with South Viet...
Like a combination of Babylon, Sodom and imperial Rome, New York lies waiting for a man of God to bring the city to its knees. That, at any rate, is the way Billy Graham sees it. Ever since he began his worldwide ministry, Evangelist Graham has catalogued New York City as a citadel of Satan he would have to tackle some day. He has decided to begin this spring. Billy and his twelve-man team have signed up Madison Square Garden from May 15 through mid-October to preach salvation to New Yorkers as he has preached it in London...
...Graham and his team have "wept, prayed and agonized" more over New York than any other community. "The enemy is fighting as we have never seen him fight before. We are wrestling with spiritual forces that can only be overcome by the power of God in answer to the prayers of God's people." Graham cites groups in Hong Kong, India and London who are praying for the New York crusade every day. Then he tells readers of Christian Life how they can help...
...Representatives two years ago with dewy eyes, Arizona's Democrat Stewart L. Udall, 34, a Tucson lawyer, quickly had the mist wiped away. Udall found himself on the Education and Labor Committee, discovered that the important 30-man committee functioned only when and however its aging conservative chairman, Graham Arthur Barden of North Carolina, willed. Working under an archaic two-sentence set of rules, i.e., meetings at the chairman's, call, formation of subcommittees only at the chairman's pleasure, the committee in Udall's first two years churned only ten important proposals into...
...strong (Roman Catholic) faith and often violent (anti-U.S.) prejudice, Britain's Novelist Graham (The Quiet American) Greene, let one get the better of the other in a crass commercial assessment of the prospects of his new play, a psychological mystery drama due to open this week on Broadway. "Wouldn't it be a marvelous thing for The Potting Shed if only Cardinal Spellman could be persuaded...