Word: messiahs
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Made desperate by the threat of chaos, the Central Europeans embraced Hitler as a messiah. Broaden the threat of chaos to worldwide dimensions, and another Adolf Hitler will be equally acceptable to the vast majority...
...Sitting Bull, after a long career of battling the white man, had retired to Standing Rock on the Pine Ridge reservation. In the summer of 1890, the "Ghost Dance" came to the Pine Ridge reservation. Wokova, a Paiute, originated the ritual, and many Indians considered him to be the Messiah...
...Ghost Dance swept across the reservation. Indian disciples came to Pine Ridge to teach the dance, and although Sitting Bull did not believe in the religion, he thought that depriving his people of belief in the Messiah would be more harmful than the dance...
...fertility rites which the group had planned were sharply curtailed by their inability to find a virgin. "We had a volunteer, but he was really more a virgin in spirit than in body," said Robert L. (Big'un) Morgan '76, Messiah...
CENTRAL CINEMA II Savage Messiah, 6:15, 9:45, Walking Stick 8, Wknd...