Word: revs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...airport slaying of Ryan and others in his party triggered the mass suicides inside the agrarian commune run by Rev. Jim Jones. Ryan was investigating reports that cult members were being held against their will...
...seemed until last week, when the followers of the Rev. Jim Jones--more than 900 of them--downed those cups of cyanide-laced Flavor-aide and promptly died in the jungle of Guyana. In the 11 days since that terrifying event, those deaths (no one will ever really be sure whether they were all suicides, or whether some drank the poison at gunpoint) have stolen the world's attention away from less exotic, less titillating news. In short, the Jonestown affair has become the most publicized spot-news event since Richard Nixon's resignation, with every form of media jumping...
...PARTICULARLY interesting facet of the Jonestown affair is that it involved many of the vague, somehow threatening phenomena and mindsets that characterize fringe groups in America today. The very embodiment of this, of course, was the Rev. Jim Jones, a peculiarly American product. So many details of his bizarre life have emerged in the past week that most people are probably tired of him already, but for others the fascination, albeit morbid, remains. Here was a man who managed to combine and warp good impulses by way of a twisted psyche...
LAST WEEKEND, two Harvard College professors and one Harvard Medical School faculty member attended the seventh International Conference on the Unity of Sciences (ICUS) in Boston, sponsored by Rev. Sun Myung Moon's International Cultural Foundation. A total of 65 academics--some of them Nobel laureates--came to the three-day convention from all parts of the world to partake in scholarly discussion groups...
Thanksgiving bids all Americans address themselves to that problem. The Rev. Peter Gomes, 38, who is preacher to Harvard University, expressed some interesting views on the holiday. Said he: "I've never really quite thought of it in terms of a shopping list, but one thing I continue to be grateful for is simply for possibilities, that things do not necessarily always have to be as they are. I'm grateful that God is not a God of the status quo. The remarkable thing about that episode in Plymouth in 1621 is that whites and Indians enjoyed themselves...