Word: revivalist
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...ALVIN AILEY, 37, is a Turned-On with a streak of the revivalist...
...made notable recent gains among urban Negroes and Puer to Ricans, and has even taken root on U.S. college campuses. For those who have received the gift of speaking in tongues, it can be an ecstatic occurrence. Glossolalia usually happens at the climax of a Pentecostal service, when the revivalist "lays on hands"-places his hand on the head of a believer, who frequently enters a trance-like state, begins to utter a stream of glottal syllables that Pentecostalists regard as prophetic speech...
...setting smacked more of a revivalist rally than a political convention. Seated primly on folding chairs in the recreation room of the Young Women's Christian Association head quarters in Detroit, under banners reading DRY CRUSADERS and CONSERVATIVE-AMERICAN-CHRISTIAN, were some 50 delegates of the Prohibition Party. When a speaker really got warmed up, the delegates, with a rustling of shawls, erupted in lusty choruses of "Amen!" For pep songs, they turned to the New Day Temperance Songs pamphlet. For hardhitting oratory, they had Michigan Fundamentalist Charles Ewing, who deplored life under the Great Society as "a syncopated...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:30 p.m.). Elmer Gantry, based on the Sinclair Lewis novel about a corrupt revivalist preacher. Burt Lancaster, in the title role, won an Oscar for his performance...
...Civil War, the plot tells of a twelve-year-old runaway (Edward Albert, son of Eddie) who recalls the nightmarish myth of the Fool Killer when he falls in with a former soldier (Tony Perkins) suffering from amnesia and other psychic ills. After the ax murder of a revivalist preacher, Perkins disappears, but returns unexpectedly once the boy has settled down with a childless couple (Dana Elcar, Salome Jens). The inevitable night of terror holds few surprises, though it does set pulses pounding on behalf of Actress Jens, who gives a dull role simple warmth...