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Glossolalists argue that they are reviving a spiritual exercise of the early Christian church, and they often quote St. Paul in I Corinthians, who lists speaking in tongues as a gift of the Holy Spirit, along with prophecy and healing. They hoot at skeptics. "It's pretty hard for a man with an idea to go up against one with an experience," says one self-satisfied glossolalist. Sample tonguing: "Ulla, ulla, unga, unga garah, atta alia ungaraze...
Except for hotels, hospitals and the Ku Klux Klan, almost no one these days gives much of a hoot for white sheets. Once the standard way to dress a bed, they are now hauled out only in an emergency (when nothing else is clean or an unexpected guest arrives), today account for less than 45% of home sales. More and more, the going way to go to bed is in checks and plaids, scallops, scrollwork, and fields upon blooming fields of flowers. And for the linen closet that has everything, Fieldcrest last week rounded out the collection. The newest...
Dirk Bogarde was 44 last week. He is a bachelor, and lives a most unpublic life. He has a stately manor house on 16 acres in Surrey½ hour commute from London. Owls hoot in the woodlands, the Rolls-Royce ticks in the drive, his horses neigh in the night, and his mastiff Candida barks. Inside, Dirk Bogarde communes with the telly. "After a hard day's work," he says, "I just want to slouch in front of a television set and watch other people make fools of themselves...
This paper's run for the readers, and we don't give a hoot in hell whether it pleases other newspapers or editors or makes them sick. We're for the general public, its likes and dislikes, its peeves and aspirations...
Brazil's newspapers hoot at Zarur. The Protestant churches deplore him, spiritualist sects repudiate him, and Rio's Roman Catholic Auxiliary Archbishop Dom Helder Camara calls him a heretic. Says Zarur: "I don't say I am comparable to Christ, but my followers do." Then he pleads their case: "Look, my enemies call me a thief, a heretic, a sorcerer. Well, they called Jesus all those things as well. I was born on Dec. 25th, the same day as Jesus was, and I also received a message from St. Francis on my 33rd birthday, the same...