Word: soule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soul-Winning Business. Last week some 3,000 of the faithful, from every state in the union and eight countries, gathered at her "jolly, gaudy" Temple for the 41st annual convention of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel. Membership, reported Church President Rolf McPherson, 50, Aimee's only son, has reached a record 218,800. The Angelus Temple has spawned more than 750 daughter churches and 1,300 mission stations in 27 countries; graduates from its three Bible colleges will carry the faith to eight more lands in 1964. The church now boasts gross assets of $41 million...
...onstage from the side and takes the third seat from the center." McPherson, who lives modestly in a middle-class Los Angeles suburb, has a Scotsman's knack for paring pennies and replenishing coffers. He himself attributes the church's survival to his mother's vision. "Soul winning is the one big business of the church," she declared; most of her convert-seeking followers tithe, while many give up weekends to build or repair their churches...
Monk was making a small but admired inroad into the "funk" and "soul" movements that had superseded the "cool." Funk was a deeper reach into Negro culture than jazz had taken before, a restatement of church music and African rhythms, but its motive was the same as bop's?finding something that white musicians had not taken over and, if possible, something they would sound wrong playing...
...contrast, Mary Lou thinks of herself as a "soul" player-a way of saying that she never strays far from melody and the blues, but deals sparingly in gospel harmony and rhythm. "I am praying through my fingers when I play," she says. "I get that good 'soul sound,' and I try to touch people's spirits...
...know, nor does anyone else, Why I sing the fado in this hurt tone Of pain and sorrow. In this torment full of anguish I feel that my soul regains its calm With the verses I sing...