Word: orality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Graduate students in the Sociology department are organizing a task force to challenge the department faculty's decision to tighten deadlines for oral examinations and thesis prospectuses...
...just don't know how to do it, and usually fall back on the same 24 words or so." What talent there is in the U.S. apparently is found in rural areas and the Deep South. "There you get concrete vivid images that come out of a strong oral tradition-Billy Carter is a good example. City dwellers' vocabularies are very anemic...
...tongues of men have proliferated considerably since the Tower of Babel helped explain how the sons of Noah came to converse in so many different languages. Today there are 3,000 languages in the world, most of them oral only, which makes life difficult for Christian missionaries sworn to spread the word of God as widely as possible. Most Bible societies, in fact, concentrate mainly on getting adequate translations into the major written languages. But the Summer Institute of Linguistics has a longer reach. For the past 42 years, following the teachings of its founder W. Cameron Townsend, S.I.L. teams...
...Graham Contemporary Oral Roberts will begin construction of an enormous, $100 million medical center in Tulsa. Target date for completion: 1981. The site is across the street from Oral Roberts University, a $150 million palace of New Pentecostalism, complete with a 10,575-seat sports arena and a spiky, spectacular 200-ft. Prayer Tower. Opened in 1965, the campus cost $150 million and is all but paid for. "I had to have a university to show that it was not a fly-by-night thing," Roberts says. Though he folded "the world's biggest revival tent" in 1967, the former...
Politics and wealth create problems of their own. Respectability and riches do not often lead to serious efforts at social reform. Money also creates image problems for revivalists like Oral Roberts, who thinks his finances are nobody's business, and Graham, who only this year for the first time decided to file open financial statements for his national program...