Word: prophets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once they absorb Queen's campy style, American audiences will be dazzled by the sound: gleaming a cappella vocal harmonies that arise from such pieces as The Prophet's Song. Words emerge with a cut-glass clarity that is rare in rock. Unfortunately, Queen's lyrics are not the stuff of sonnets. In Death On Two Legs, Mercury hurls a series of enunciated curses: "You suck my blood like a leech ... you're a sewer rat decaying in a cesspool of pride." The song, Mercury says with a smile, shows him in "one of my docile...
...every Mormon comes to Harvard and jumps into the full commitment that some Mormons here have made to the church. Some men, for example, decide against leaving on missions, although the present prophet and president of the Mormon church, octogenarian Spencer W. Kimball (Mormons say he is young for his job), declared recently that it is every Mormon man's duty to go on a mission. Dr. Chase N. Peterson '52, vice president for alumni affairs and development and current president of the university branch, never went on a mission. Two active Mormon seniors, Muliufi Hanneman and J. Arthur Jensen...
...church's organization shows a feudally hierarchic side of Mormonism that helps lead to its political conservatism. The impact of revelations depends on one's position in the church: Prophet Kimball's revelations can change all Mormon doctrine (Prophet Wilford Woodruff did just that on the polygamy questions in the 1890s, after a federal crackdown on polygamy sent many prominent Mormons to prison.) The revelations of the head of the Boston stake (or diocese) will affect the stake (in the choice of a branch president, for example), and each individual's revelations are restricted to his or her self...
Mormon undergraduates' attitudes toward the ban range from angry rejection ("I think it's total b.s., and I don't even want to talk about it," one says) to passive acceptance of the doctrinal justification with hopes that Prophet Kimball will have a revelation admitting blacks. Matt Thomas "77 accepts the prohibition as legitimately based on Mormon scriptures, but he becomes upset and ashamed when some Mormons take the "tiny fact [of prohibition] to say blacks are inferior." He adds, "I'm convinced that blacks at some point will receive the priesthood right by revelation...
...there are almost as many posters of Nasser with his fiery eyes gazing down at the public as there are of the country's mercurial military strongman, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Throughout much of the Arab world, in fact, the late Egyptian leader is passionately venerated as a modern prophet -but not, curiously, in his own country...