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...Year's Eve television screens, Evangelist Billy Graham, sports-jacketed and gray-templed, delivered a fireside jeremiad. Citing the year's woeful parade of scandals, crises and other miseries, Graham warned that the U.S. would experience even worse difficulties if Americans did not forthwith repent and return to God. "The only answer," he said, "is Jesus...
...explosion in 1968 that missed killing Papadopoulos by a split second. Marmon cabled: "Panagoulis emerged in a blue knit shirt and gray pants. After embracing his lawyer and receiving a kiss from his 62-year-old mother Athina, he was quick to announce: 'I do not repent. I am not ashamed of what I have done.' He pulled up his shirt and showed long scars running up his abdomen and chest that he said were the results of torture. He said that the interrogator had told him, 'I'm going to peel...
Through it all he faces death unrepentant. "I don't feel guilty for a goddam thing I've done on earth," he says. "I believe it was Thoreau who said, 'What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?' And if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior." It seems a fitting epitaph for Washington's last angry...
...best year this country has ever seen. Given a choice, many Americans would put on a blindfold and pick out of a hat another year in which to live-any one of the past 500. But as Marie Twain, Lord Byron and countless other writers suggest, they would soon repent upon discovering that there is no such thing as a golden age. The past is an illusion just as much as the future; it is Utopia in reverse...
There they go, brandishing Bible verses, preaching of doomsday, urging man to repent. A new fundamentalist sect? No, a small but growing band of church scholars on an "eco-trip"-seeking theological underpinning for the ecology crusade...