Word: messiahs
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From Cabinet officer to clerk, some 2,700 people filled all the seats in the vast Kennedy Center Concert Hall for a sing-in of Handel's Messiah. The event is regarded as the ultimate offspring of a city that runs on committee hearings, conferences and massed voices of protest or praise. Many of the participants sang off key, of course. But they sang in a singleness of spirit...
Bruce is a musical messiah whose time has come. I only hope he is not crucified by renown...
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...going to try to state what my play The Orphan [Sept. 15] is about. I will merely tell you in as simple a way as I can that never in my life have I written a word to portray Charles Manson as a "misunderstood victim," an "oracle," or a "messiah...
...family. Gradually, carefully, one is indoctrinated into the religion. Through Moon's interpretation of the Bible, we were made to understand that there is a God, an afterlife, and a spirit world. The religion is primarily Christian, stressing the power of Christ and the imminent second coming of the messiah. Moon's followers believe, through their understanding of Revelation and the cycles of human history, that the new messiah has arrived and, though he is never mentioned in lectures, that Reverend Sun Myung Moon is that new messiah...