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...play is set in Nigeria at an indefinite time--there are references to modern nuisances such as television, yet the characters suggest a more traditional era. Brother Jero is the rough equivalent of an American storefront preacher, a "beachfront divine." His world is one of tongue-in-cheek contrasts, for like all slightly bogus religious leaders, he sees through the pretensions of his livelihood and of his enraptured flock...
...Shout!, presented with the Brother Jero cast and the Kuumba Singers, Scott offers an effective wrap-up to the lighter main attraction. Shout! is particularly worthwhile because it offers a more serious view of the role of the preacher in Black society, along with spirituals, extensions of Brother Jero, and parts of speeches by James Weldon Johnson and Martin Luther King Jr. Kathleen Gatson and Jacqueline Kearney especially stand out in this part of the production...
Bhajan has important backers in India. High Priest Guruchuran Singh Tohra, president of the management committee for northern India's Sikh temples, confirms that his council has given "full approval" to 3HO and recognizes the yogi as a preacher. Tohra, however, says that this does not mean Bhajan is the Sikh leader of the Western Hemisphere, as he claims. The Sikhs do not create such offices. Nor, Tohra adds, has the committee given Bhajan the rarely bestowed title, Siri Singh Sahib (the equivalent of saying "Sir" three times), which he uses...
...opulent as he was four decades ago as a radical New Deal Senator. Democrat Pepper's latest crusade, gingered up by senior citizens' groups like the Gray Panthers, is aimed at halting what he views as discrimination because of age. His argument, delivered in his trademark soapbox-preacher style: "Mandatory retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talent, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system and drives many elderly persons into poverty and despair...
...name in disputes over Mormonism. As early as 1833 one apostate Mormon argued that there were similarities between Smith's scriptures and an unpublished Spalding novel about the origins of the Indians. The missing Spalding manuscript was supposedly filched from a Pittsburgh publishing house by an itinerant preacher who gave the papers to Smith...