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...northern Korea. He attended a pentecostal church, and on Easter Sunday of 1936, he reports, Jesus appeared and told him to carry out his unfinished task by completing man's salvation. Moon got married in 1944 but left his pregnant wife behind in Seoul to go to preach in the north. There, in 1948, he was imprisoned...
...vein, Alan E. Heimert '49, Cabot Professor of American Literature and a student of Miller's, has discussed the "declension" of Massachusetts Bay Puritanism in terms of its shift in emphasis from spiritual well-being to material prosperity--a shift reflected by the jeremiads, sermons of the 1660s that preach virtue as a means of averting crop failure...
...Using air time donated by local radio and television stations, PRO Detroit broadcast spot ads featuring blacks and whites (some of whom said that they were antibusing) who urged parents and students to behave. Explains Jack Casey, director of the ad campaign: "Our idea was 'Don't preach, don't try to sell busing, just try to tell people that it is important to obey...
Many of us in New Hampshire feel that William Loeb [Jan. 12] should apply his paper's slogan ("There is nothing so powerful as truth") to the Manchester Union Leader, reasoning that it does not represent Manchester, preach unity or exert true leadership. When Loeb was in a Boston hospital recently, some fantasized that instead, the whole state should be in-for a Loebotomy...
...Somerset and Search for Tomorrow) are reworkings of conventional material and have little of the dash of the newer dramas. "I guess we're awfully dull," admits Joe Willmore, who directs the writers of As the World Turns. "I hate to say it, but I don't want to preach to people about social mores. I want to be largely accepted...