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...artists' meditations on primitive nature and the origins of consciousness. Reams of exegesis have been devoted to the numinous imagery of Mark Rothko's paintings, with their feathery bars and rectangles of hovering light. The vital text, however, was unwittingly furnished by a popular American preacher in the 1920s, when asked to describe his vision of God. "I see him," said the evangelist, "as a sort of oblong blur...
...came out looking terribly poor." Asked who won, Northwestern University Political Scientist Louis Masotti replied with a derisive comment on the audio breakdown, "The Luddites," a reference to the early 19th century workers who smashed machines in protest against industrialization. Added Masotti: "Carter came across as a Southern Baptist preacher, and Ford was reciting high school platitudes. I may not go to the polls in November. I just can't get up for this." Douglas Fraser, director of the United Auto Workers' political arm, predictably thought Carter came off all right, but no better: "He didn't have...
...South has changed before -and remained the same, through slavery and secession, independence and defeat, emancipation, reconstruction and integration. The best exposition of its present condition came from one of its major prophets, Martin Luther King, who liked to quote a favorite Baptist preacher: "We ain't what we want to be. We ain't what we gonna be. But, thank God, we ain't what...
Discuss and Push. Five years later, Sullivan, now 53 and showing flecks of gray in his curly hair, is still on the board-and how much difference has his presence made? It is not easy to say; he has experienced a mixture of satisfactions and disappointments. In a preacher's emphatic voice, he ticks off a list of ways in which GM has used its power to aid black-owned businesses. During his five years, Sullivan boasts, the auto giant has increased its advertising in black publications from 66,000 lines annually to 1.3 million, has opened an account...
...year was 1847, and the girl was Ellen Gould White, who was to become the leader of a new sect, the Seventh-day Adventists. A follower of Baptist Preacher William Miller, she had been one of thousands of Americans who waited in homes and churches on Oct. 22, 1844, convinced that Christ's Second Coming would occur that very day. When by midnight nothing had happened, many of the Millerites lost faith. They called the non-event "the Great Disappointment." But some still believed that Christ's Second Advent was imminent. Among them was Ellen White, whose conviction...