Word: preached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shall we start, pilgrims . . . Yeah! Yeah! ... by taking the people of Harlem, pilgrims . . . Yeah! Yeah! ... up the long stairway to heaven, pilgrims. Yeah! Yeah! Preach that word brother...
...Church, Agar believes that Hitler and the other great malefactors of mankind are sent by Providence to punish people who have betrayed their spiritual heritage. The standard-bearers of democratic civilization failed to live up to their own standards. If they want to survive, they must practice what they preach...
...devoted themselves to perfecting the technique of showing everything exactly. They left nothing for the audience to supply. The precise representation of concrete things became a fetish. Unfortunately their holy war was successful; Realism has become the gospel of the American theatre, virtually without a single infidel to preach against it. The result: audiences have become mentally poverty-stricken. They have been taught to believe what they see, and only what they see. If they do not see it or have not seen it, it cannot exist. Imagination is employed only for the uses of obscenity...
...running for the Congressional nomination in the Fifth District (Minneapolis). He went to China first in 1924, did medical-missionary work four years, superintended a hospital, and returned to the U.S. in 1932 to study in the famed Mayo Clinic. From another stint in China he came back to preach that the U.S. must beware the Japs...
...talk to him about a golf game." He got the idea for his column when he heard whispering about the propriety of his playing a round after church on Sundays. So he persuaded cherubic Sports Editor Charles Johnson of the Star-Journal to give him space to preach the gospel that Sunday sports are all right-but go to church...