Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...section "Voices of Revolution" is especially interesting because it brings the reader into the atmosphere of a political rally. Leaders from Venezuela, Mozambique, and Peru pound out the inexorable logic of their position, call for unity of classes, and preach nationalism. The spout neo-Marxian polemics--"We have nothing to lose but the chains that destroy our dignity;" and the revolutionary vocabulary of diatribe--"imperialism," "industrial reserve army," and "pauperization...
Murray will not conduct a Catholic service Sunday, Price noted. "I like to think of Mem Church as a place where a man can preach with no consciousness of the denominational tradition out of which he comes," he added...
...Apropos of Adam Clayton Powell, alias "Daniel" [Sept. 30]. Am I mistaken, or didn't ministers use to preach the Gospel from their pulpits on Sunday morning? Apparently Mr. Powell feels that the denunciation and abasement of his House Education and Labor Committee as "racists" is more important than God's word. MARK J. HARDCASTLE King of Prussia...
...husband, set herself up as a fashionable couturiere, and now longs for a "total commitment"-to a person, to a cause, to anything at all; Axel, a dazzling, dispassionate mystic of the absurd who has resigned his university lectureship to work in a hospital ward for thalidomide babies and preach a gospel of gratuitous, existential love, which Annerose finds appealing but scarcely persuasive; Octavio, a muscular young industrialist who believes in exactly nothing and who finally proposes to Annerose a commitment she finds compelling. "What else does beauty need," he asks, "but the chance to be destroyed?" What, indeed...
...achieve Black Power are revolutionary. The Negro is to use whatever tactics he is willing to take the consequences for, and this includes block voting, a general strike, or molotov cocktails. Carmichael is careful to dispel another myth--nonviolence, which he says the press attributed to SNCC. "We preach nonviolence among ourselves, but that's as far as it goes," Carmichael said. "They [the whites] don't tell you about the time we marched in Lawrence County with 900 armed men--they didn't mess with us," he added...