Word: joshua
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With a prophet's zeal, the modern Joshua who wants the walls to come tumbling down has preached his doctrine more than 120 times in the last three months to hundreds of U.S. and Canadian psychiatrists and mental health workers. Many of his hearers sputtered, "You don't really mean it!" But Dr. Bierer does. He seriously proposes the wiping out of most of the present mental hospitals, and certainly the big ones where patients are kept round the clock for months and years (though the number of patients in hospitals has been dropping since...
...Western countries, mental hospitals are big and numerous-yet crowded beyond capacity; they cost too much-yet cannot get enough psychiatrists to staff them. The solution to these paradoxes, says British Psychiatrist Joshua Bierer: tear down most of the hospitals...
...group of Italian rebels who called themselves futurists. This week 129 of their works went on display at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art in the first comprehensive exhibit of futurism ever held in the U.S. Accompanying the show is a luci,. 154-page catalogue by Professor Joshua C. Taylor of the University of Chicago-the best book in English to date on the movement...
...Holy Bible, Ain't Goin' Study War No More, bending her notes in the manner of the great blues singer Bessie Smith. Occasionally, she stepped away from the microphone to let her big voice boom through the hall without the aid of electronics. When she got to Joshua Fit ae Battle of Jericho, the walls of the auditorium almost came down. Mahalia escaped only by improvising a song: Mahalia's Not Gonna Sing No More...
...professional career. From the start audiences recognized her, as did London's New Statesman, as "the most majestic voice of faith" of her generation. The obvious sincerity of Mahalia's belief moves audiences even when they cannot understand her words. "I believe everything," said she. "I believe Joshua did pray to God and the sun stood still " On her Israeli trip she became frightened while traveling over the twisting roads of the rugged Judean Hills, until a "Spirit" reprimanded her: "If Joseph could bring Mary over these rough mountains on a donkey, you oughta be ashamed of yourself...