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Perhaps that is why Ben Evett '86, a charter member of Robert Brustein's Institute for Advanced Theatrical Training, has decided to stage Faith Healer in the Adams House basement. This two hour talkfest consists of four reminiscences about Francis Hardy (Ben Evett), an itinerant Irish faith healer whose ministrations actually succeed from time to time. Hardy, his wife Grace (Rebecca Clark), and his manager Teddy (Linus Gelber) recall his life, culminating in a disastrous return tour to Ireland. Each character gives his version of the events, with Hardy going first and last; like the famous Japanese short story...
Brown explained the principle of touch-healing, where the hands are run over, but do not touch, a body to smooth the person's energy out. "The body is a movement of energy; a healer is someone who can sense where the movement of energy is blocked, and go to the source of the problem and cure it, rather than just treating the symptom," Brown says. "All health is really psychosomatic. A change in your attitude can make your problems go away." He says he has cured people of arthritis, and cites examples of people who have used mental energy...
...investigation of how little structure a song can have and still be a song, Big Dipper insert their bursts of oddity within relatively normal frameworks. All the songs on Dipper's debut EP, Boo-Boo, are vaguely recognizable forms of straight rock and roll, country or pop balladry. "Faith Healer," for example is a conventional rock tune made interesting by a contorted and bizarre riff, seemingly some sort of comment on the TV preacher of the title...
Oral Roberts has long aroused controversy, not only during his 21 years as a touring faith healer but in his subsequent career as university president and medical administrator. The death revelation, however, was certainly the oddest of the messages from on high that Roberts has reported since he launched his $250 million City of Faith Medical and Research Center in 1977. The first revelation was God's command to build the lavish complex, detailing such matters as a design with three towers of 20, 30 and 60 stories. In the next astonishing disclosure, Jesus appeared, standing "some 900 feet tall...
...room, a red-dressed dot of flame that by some alchemy has ignited the nation against drugs. As First Lady, she could have eased up, turned away into antiques or gardening. "But you couldn't, you couldn't, you just couldn't," she says with the fervor of a healer that no one ever imagined dwelled in that 100-lb. frame so elegantly clothed and coiffed. "When you talk to those kids and you talk to those parents who are just torn apart, what it does to these families, and what it -- I mean it's heartbreaking." Her voice cracks...