Word: preacher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...where Julian Bond will from here. His refusal to leave Atlanta (which, last we forget, is surrounded by Georgia), and the recent Congressional victory of black preacher Andrew Young are factors which may force Bond into premature political eclipse. Black state senator Leroy Johnson is now said to wield for more clout than Bond with the state. Judging by his new book, Bond is as eloquent as ever, though his batting average as innovator and philosopher is relatively low, Still, there is promise of good things from Julian Bond. Although it is uncertain whether they will be enacted or merely...
...terms of morality and righteousness; Richard Nixon was guilty of the "big lie" in general and of "deliberate conniving deception" concerning the Viet Nam negotiations. At one point he talked about how Lincoln put his faith in God in facing the burdens that lay ahead. This election, the preacher-teacher-Senator from South Dakota said, could be "more important and more fateful" than Lincoln's 112 years ago. As he spoke at Long Beach Airport, a bell somewhere began to ring inexplicably and repeatedly. It was that kind of day in that kind of fall...
Poor little preacher boy. He was forced to memorize sermons by having his head pushed under water, earned...
...story on polls and predictions. Since these differed merely on the magnitude of Nixon's forthcoming victory, the campaign coverage never worked up even a small measure of suspense. There was plenty of rancorous rhetoric. The New York Times's Tom Wicker lashed out bitterly at Nixon as a preacher of falsehoods whose pious pledges are "obscene"; just as relentlessly, Syndicated Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak belittled the "ludicrously inept" Democratic campaign...
...poor were "too lazy to work." "Keep them happy," Floyd added. "We'll need them on election day." As a result, Perry at first moved cautiously. Even so, his meetings with the poor to work out a program quickly ran into resistance. A snake-handling fundamentalist preacher turned up to rail against the project as the work of either Communists or the devil. Community toughs ambushed one organizer in an abandoned railroad tunnel along Twelve-Pole Creek. Perry began to get death threats...