Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jesus freaks. Evangelical hippies. Or, as many prefer to be called, street Christians. Under different names-and in rapidly increasing numbers-they are the latest incarnation of that oldest of Christian phenomena: footloose, passionate bearers of the Word, preaching the kingdom of heaven among the dispossessed of the earth. Their credentials are ancient, for they claim to be emulating Christ and his Disciples. They often build their lives on the Book of Acts, living in common like the early Christians. They abjure drugs, proscribe sex outside marriage, pray and preach incessantly among drifters, addicts and homosexuals and even, occasionally...
...wildly swinging legs, the imperious clatter of bamboo sticks, the thunderclap of hands, the keening from scores of female throats. Then, having convinced himself that he had picked up the beat, he raised his practiced arm and for a few fascinating measures conducted some of the world's oldest and most primitive music...
After three weeks of hard work as an apprentice mountain-climbing guide at Washington's Mount Rainier, Joseph Kennedy III, 17, oldest son of the late Senator Robert Kennedy, admitted, "I still get tired." The new hand is described by his boss Lou Whittaker, brother of Everest Conqueror Jim Whittaker, as "bigger than average" (6 ft., 190 Ibs.) but with "good coordination." Last week young Joe had a chance to show just how good he is by easily maintaining the brisk pace set by his mother Ethel as they breezed halfway up the slopes of Mount Rainier...
...with the most cheerful hues possible under the circumstances. As Nixon personally made the announcement to newsmen, there was no suggestion of the controversies that had come between the two men or of the dissatisfaction that Nixon had begun to feel. Rather, the President said that he needed his "oldest and closest friend and associate'' near by in the White House. He will have the title of Counsellor to the President, travel with the President at home and abroad, and provide advice on both domestic and certain foreign subjects. "I regret losing him at HEW," the President said...
...oldest and most enduring of student grievances is, of course, the need for intellectual toil. And personally I have always found such toil a distressing thing. But again no successful social system provides an escape. And it is wrong, I think, to use the wrongs of this society as a way of escaping such labor. In the aftermath of the enlargement of the war this spring and of the murders at Kent State and Jackson State, it was no doubt necessary that regular university operations be modified or suspended. But this must not become a habit. I have a further...