Word: revivalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Relatives of the liberated prisoners waited long past midnight in a jammed terminal at Dulles International Airport, near Washington. Black supporters of the Rev. Jesse Jackson broke into spirited song, creating a revivalist mood. Mobs of reporters and photographers jostled for position. Finally, klieg lights flashed on and in their glare stood Jackson, resplendent in his safari suit and surrounded by a group of released American and Cuban prisoners. A grateful woman rushed tearfully toward the black minister and threw her arms around his chest. Jackson flashed his familiar grin...
Folksinger Arlo Guthrie brought his peace-march revivalist spirit to Copley Square yesterday to lead a rally for presidential candidate George S. McGovern, following up a similarly spirited benefit he gave in Manchester. N.H,. February...
Shamed and disillusioned by his only gods, medicine and himself, he has bolted from the hospital, gathered up his neglected wife (Phyllis Somerville) and possessively loved son (Damion Scheller), and taken them to the home of his father, a rural revivalist preacher (Hume Cronyn...
Jackson conducts his crusade with the fervor of an old-style revivalist, sometimes appearing at as many as 40 rallies a week. "All those who are not registered stand up!" he yells. Dozens of young blacks sheepishly rise. "I want you to walk right down here and get registered now!" he says, indicating the registration tables. "Isn't that wonderful! Give them a big hand...
Known to the outside world as "the Siberian Seven," they are Russian Pentecostalists, revivalist worshipers who want to emigrate to the U.S. with the rest of their families. Thus far, the Soviet Union has blocked their efforts. Last week, in the most dramatic in their 20-year battle, two of the seven, Augustina Vashchenko, 52, and her daughter Lidiya, 30, were on a hunger strike and failing fast. "Lidiya is down to her last reserves," said visiting Pennsylvania Congressman Bud Shuster. "It could become a life-threatening situation...