Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...message is that it's really important to believe in something, anything, any religion, anything meaningful enough to tell you why we're around and to answer all the questions he asked in Visions of Johanna. Saint Augustine has "a voice without restraint"; and Dylan, who doesn't preach anything, can't say he was wrong and doesn't doubt the sincerity of his actions. Sincerity, what a great thing...
...Harvard's trouble on behalf of the Indians, the College turned out only one Indian preacher. The single success, John Sassamon, attended Harvard for just one term in 1653 before he left to preach to the Wampanoags at Natick. (Sassamon is remembered less for his preaching than for his murder, which touched off King Philip...
...least surprise of the spring has been the readiness of some black firebrands to preach peace and Realpolitik in the ghettos. In the fearful days after Martin Luther King's assassination, Mau Mau Chieftain Charles Kenyatta joined with New York's Mayor John Lindsay in lowering Harlem's temperature. In Los Angeles' Watts, Black Nationalist Ron Karenga and other militants passed the word: no riots, at least for the present...
...short run, the murder in Memphis will probably increase the power of the militants. "The way things are today," observes Floyd McKissick, chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality, "not even Christ could come back and preach nonviolence...
...beaten her the year after they were married; she had filed for divorce in 1966, and then withdrew. Currently, another divorce suit is pending. More important, said the defense, was the fact that "the federal and state constitutions guarantee to all religious groups the right to hold and preach doctrines." If that guarantee is meaningful, then surely a church cannot be liable for the consequences of stating a specific belief...