Word: crouching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even in CBN's flourishing state today, fund raising is pervasive, as it is on all Gospel TV. Sometimes the pitch is blatant, as with California Neopentecostalist Paul Crouch, 51, operator of the all-religion Trinity Broadcasting Network (nine stations, 6 million cable homes, $35 million budget). He tells viewers that a widow has donated her life savings of $7,000 and comments, "Do you realize what an awesome responsibility it is for me to stand here and encourage people to literally give all they have to God? I'm either the biggest fool and idiot...
...German government, which backed this show, would agree to send souvenirs of a bitter past to England; and even less that its various corporate underwriters would want their coffee, cars and airliners associated with Nazi imagery. So those flaxen-haired Madchens, village scenes and straining athletes are fated to crouch in the basement of art history, invested with a diabolic aura that in the light of common day would shrivel. They may be sodden kitsch, but to claim they are not a significant part of German cultural history is wishful thinking...
...black Author Stanley Crouch wrote in the Village Voice in the wake of the Goetz shootings, some black perceptions nourished by the civil rights movement are changing. In automatically defending the black teenage criminal, suggested Crouch, blacks were also hurting themselves. "Race was one thing, crime another. It was no longer second nature for black people to take the side of the impoverished colored teenager who created so many of their own problems." There is a realization, compelled by force of circumstance, that blacks must look at themselves first as victims of crime and only second as victims of racism...
Cambridge officials used the worst-case scenario, which Crouch said yesterday was very unlikely, in their analysis of the laboratory and in the decision to issue the restriction...
...reason to applaud this is that it simply supports the idea that the public has some right to influence what goes on around them," Crouch said. But the risk assessment specialist said he believed the threat was minimal...