Word: hastings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just before the inevitable verdict came down last week, a gaggle of Jim Bakker's faithful backers defiantly held aloft a King James Bible opened to Psalm 17: 3: "Thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing." But the jury sang a different psalm: Guilty as charged on all 24 counts of defrauding the public of $3.7 million via TV, phone and mail. Testimony about one of the ripest scandals in U.S. religious history had consumed 25 days; the jury needed less than eleven hours to decide...
...have stayed up night after night after night after night to try to get the system going," Keshishian says later. "Patching is a problem because the American Repertory Theater takes away half their dimmers to the Hast Pudding.... The problem is that it's a show that relies very heavily on technical elements because it's about pictures...
...Marcos plundering seems ultimately a cheerless affair, covert though sometimes ostentatious, avaricious though often prodigal. Christ said, "If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven." Marcos did not wish to wait. He turned Christianity upside down. He took nourishment from the mouths of the poor and transformed it into his treasure on earth. Such venality is not a matter of either Freud or metaphysics. It is just a brutal habit, the crocodile reflex of a man too long in power. It is a subdivision...
...endorse rugged individualism as the engine of hard work, but in fact the Puritan fathers were mainly concerned with individuals as contributors to a social compact. From John Cotton's The Way of Life (1641): "If thou beest a man that lives without a calling, though thou hast two thousands to spend, yet if thou hast no calling, tending to publique good, thou art an uncleane beast." From John Winthrop (1630), the first American to see the new land as a "City upon a Hill": "If thy brother be in want and thou canst help him, thou needst...
...Crimson icemen are opportunists and willing to take advantage of the last year of this generous ECAC arrangement that has several Ivy division teams scrambling to finish a game act 500 and then hast a powerhouse in the friendly confines of its own arena...