Word: jeremiahs
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...Once in a while a reader stands out from the faceless crowd--Dean Gitter as Cosroe and Phillip Hecksher as Techelles bring some life to their parts. A few of the 42 parts are also noticeably bad; Richard Backus races through the brief prologue at breakneck speed and Jeremiah Tower seems to feel that Mycetes must be made monotonous in order to show that he is weak. But the lines become so repetitious that the characters for the most part float by unnoticed...
Graham does not, however, see himself as a prophet like Isaiah and Jeremiah. "When I first heard myself called an evangelist, I resented it--I thought of Elmer Gantry. But I've come to like it. It comes from a Greek word meaning 'proclaimer'; an evangelist is a proclaimer of the good news that God loves us and wants to help...
...things I'm going to ask God when I get to Heaven, because I don't know. I'm the most ordinary person in the world. I'm amazed at it all; to me it's just God. It's sovereignty of God in choosing me as he did Jeremiah, or Isaiah...
...Common Market Commission's financial vice president, Robert Marjolin, is a Jeremiah who takes any opportunity to cajole or frighten the member nations into closer cooperation and more central planning. In Strasbourg to deliver his annual economic report to the European Parliament last week, Marjolin warned the Six of galloping inflation that threatens the Market's whole structure...
Other Negro leaders were on hand too. Jeremiah X, Georgia torchbearer for the militant Black Muslim organization, paused in a recruiting drive generated by the Birmingham riots to sneer at King's passive approach to integration: "King's movement is just a form of sophisticated begging. We are not a violent movement, but we do not believe in getting our heads kicked in, either. Black people have been dying for nothing all these years-now it's time for them to die for something." Jackie Robinson and Floyd Patterson were in town for a day. They made...