Word: revivalistic
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Inwagen said of the second letter, "One could no more reply to it than one could reply to a Hitler speech or a tub-thumping backwoods revivalist sermon...
Thomas "Satch" Sanders wants another Great Awakening to shake Harvard out of its complacency. Like the Puritan revivalist Jonathan Edwards of almost two and a half centuries ago, Sanders would like to see a little fervor in the meetinghouse...
...really wouldn't be unhappy with the Redskins. He and Allen, the 'Skins revivalist leader, would hit it off fine. And the 'Skins are Nixon's kind of people. Allen's Redskins are a composite of rejects, over-the-hillers, and rejuvenated hacks. Just like Nixon's White House squad. Allen's Redskins cheer themselves and pat themselves on the back when they succeed. Just like Nixon's men. Allen's Redskins sulk when they lose. Just like Nixon's men. Allen, the human re-tread wizard, has made a career of reviving worn-out careers. Nixon has been through...
...sound is virtually continuous; it ranges from rock to revivalist hymns to the background whine of transistor radios to the economical singsong (and sometimes subtitled) Jamaican English of its principal characters. And the sound is uniformly good. Jimmy Cliff's rock is strong and vibrant. The title song is a top 40 hit whose tune may stay with you for a few days, and the church music is professional, loud and compelling. All of it buoys up the film with movement and vigor...
MARJOE IS AN UNDENIABLY slick and engrossing film unfortunately, it is a movie that focuses on the wrong subject. An expose of the "big time" evangelical preaching racket, this documentary has been conceived as a public act of repentance for former revivalist Marjoe Gortner. It serves almost entirely as a showcase for its egotistical protagonist and never confronts a more important topic--the lives and motivations of the people caught up in his religious revivals. As a result the audience is subjected to a frustratingly inarticulate exercise which is nevertheless provocative and revealing in spite of itself...