Word: jeffreys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ELSEWHERE, somewhere in the desert wasteland outside Solong, the wandering Prophet Motive (Leonard Dick) and his hapless sidekick Ahmed A'Boubou (Jeffrey Korn) are way ahead of their time, preaching the good 20th century values of capitalism and personal repression. Dick's enormous birdnest of a white wig and his well-developed evangelistic twang are all-too-familiar and consequently quite effective. Their energetic duet, "Moral Hygiene," is yet another showstopper...
Sociologist Jeffrey Hadden of the University of Virginia, who was skeptical of religious broadcasters' claims to big audiences in his 1981 book Prime Time Preachers, says the Nielsen report shows a "much larger" audience than he and other experts had thought. The preachers, he now asserts, "have greater unrestricted access to media than any other interest group in America." Powered by TV evangelism, he predicts, the Christian right "is destined to become the major social movement in America" during the late 20th century...
While both leftists and rightists denounce the apathy of most Dartmouth students, some observers believe that the campus is not as apolitical as it seems. "When there are issues like these," says Jeffrey A. Blatt, publisher of The Dartmouth, "the the potential is there for people to be politically active." He seems to be right...
Campus observers called for strict punishment of the DCBGBWC. "If these people don't get severely punished, it is going to be ugly around here," said Jeffrey A. Blatt, publisher of The Dartmouth, last week. Although Blatt denies inconsistency, the campus daily called for the expulsion of the 12 students only one day after its editorial pages had called for the shanties to come down...
...Embassy spokesman Jeffrey Lite said yesterday that Washington was considering releasing $52 million in foreign aid already approved for Haiti but held up because of the human rights abuses under Duvalier...