Word: preachers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country is on the verge of civil disobedience if the Vietnam war continues on its present course," the Rev. Richard E. Mumma, preacher to the University, said at a Young Democrat-sponsored meeting on Vietnam...
...admission, but thus far he has shown no inclination to leave his Bimini retreat. Representatives who want Powell admitted could force the is sue by seeking to reverse the House decision to exclude him, but they are likely to be defeated. If anything, congressional sentiment has hardened against the preacher-playboy in recent weeks. "The reasons for excluding him in the first place," said Missouri Republican Thomas B. Curtis, "still are there-ethics and conduct." Some House members are urging the Justice Department to take the whole problem off their shoulders by prosecuting Powell on charges of misappropriating public funds...
...world." Every Ellington piece is a musical snapshot from his experience. Mood Indigo is a little boy kept indoors by the rain, thinking of a little girl to whom he tipped his cap the day before; Shepherd Watching over the Night Flock, one of his newest pieces, is a preacher friend who canvasses Manhattan bistros each night, ministering to musicians and barflies...
Enter the Fugs, Greenwich Village folk-rock preacher-lovers who have sprung full grown and screaming from Allen Ginsberg's beard. Champions of moral disarmament, they sing out for the people who, according to Ginsberg's liner notes on their second album, "make love with their eyes open, maybe smoke pot & maybe take LSD & look inside their heads to find the Self-God Walt Whitman prophesied for America...
Human Saint. Luther defies easy characterization, however, since his life and work add up to a complex of paradoxes. An authentic spiritual revolutionary, he was at the same time a social and political conservative, wedded to the ideals of feudal society. A limpid preacher of God's majesty and transcendence, he was capable of a four-letter grossness of language. He was the archetype of individual Christian assertion; yet he could be brutally intolerant of dissent, and acquiesced in the suppression of those he considered heretics. Prayerful and beer-loving, sensual and austere, he was the least saintly...