Word: prophetess
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During last winter's elections that brought Kenneth Kaunda's United National Independence Party to power, the only serious violence at the polls occurred in the northeastern districts, and they involved not Kaunda's political opponents but the zealous followers of a religious prophetess named Alice Lenshina. It seems that Kaunda's agents tried to force her people to vote. They did not want to, and by the time the excitement was over, a number of people were dead. Last week Alice's followers were at it again, this time sparking a major rebellion that...
Founding the first modern Montessori school in the U.S. turned red-haired Nancy McCormick Rambusch from a housewife into a stormy prophetess. Her success in setting up the Whitby School in Greenwich, Conn., led to so much demand for her advice that she went on to start the American Montessori Society. "I'm sort of the Mary Baker Eddy of this organization," she remarks, a little ruefully. But Nancy Rambusch is proud that beginning with Whitby in 1958, the Montessori movement in the U.S. has grown to 100 private schools (38 of them belonging to her A.M.S...
...Party seems certain to sweep the territorial elections set for Jan. 20, but Kaunda is already facing terrorist opposition from the African National Congress, led by hard-drinking Harry Nkumbula and by members of the Lumpa church, a militant African sect headed by a 39-year-old self-styled prophetess named Alice Lenshina...
...FAIR SISTER, by William Goyen. A white Texan peers behind the facades of the store-front cathedrals in the Negro ghettos of great East Coast cities and finds a world of religion, chicanery and entertainment that only Negroes know from the inside. The novel's heroine, part prophetess, part charlatan, is all woman...
...FAIR SISTER, by William Goyen. A white Texan peers behind the facades of the store-front cathedrals in the Negro ghettos of great East Coast cities and finds a world of religion, chicanery and entertainment that only Negroes know from the inside. The novel's heroine, part prophetess, part charlatan, is all woman...