Word: sermonizers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Missionary Monk" almost brought the audience to tears with a heartfelt sermon backed by a string trio; the audience could only express its rapture with exclamations of "Cello! Cello!" Then it was funk, funk, funk, and more funk, with the full power of the band, horns, and "Celestial Chorus" cruising alongside the "Monk...
...personality between his populist leanings as an Elvis Presley-loving son of a small-town nurse and his intellectual elitism as a Rhodes scholar and full-time wonk. He developed an intense relationship with the Rev. W.O. Vaught of Immanuel Baptist, a biblical scholar known for his erudition, whose sermons were drawn directly from Scripture. Friends of both men say Clinton, who lost his father to a car accident before he was born, was drawn to him for his paternal and nonjudgmental counsel. Vaught, who died of bone cancer three years ago, helped Clinton reconcile the conflict between his pious...
...should run for political office again, and 56% approve of the formation of his political group, United We Stand America. Perot hoped to improve those poll figures by airing a half-hour prime-time show on NBC last Sunday (price: $400,000) where he could deliver his familiar sermon against lobbyists representing foreign interests, the campaign financing system, profligate government spending and other targets...
...checked the cover of the book to make sure I hadn't accidentally opened one of my roommate's philosophy texts. But the book I was holding was indeed my biology text, and I had been reading about excretion in marine bony fishes. At least, that is, until this sermon suddenly appeared out of nowhere...
Even though Israel would use up political capital in forcing Clinton's back to the wall, the strong chance of a U.S. veto sobers the exiled Palestinians scraping by on the southern slopes of Lebanon. Their spokesman, Rantisi, posed another question the other day during his hillside sermon. In urging the world "to prove who is the highest authority," he wanted to know, "is it Rabin and his Supreme Court or the U.N. Security Council?" It is neither, of course, but rather the world's single surviving superpower, which, however loath it may be to use it, still...