Word: evangelicism
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It was this Vladivostok agreement that Jimmy Carter wanted to push aside in 1977 in his evangelic zeal to substitute deep cuts in missiles and warheads. But surprises are not welcome in the programmed society of the U.S.S.R. Brezhnev, sicker than ever, angrily turned down the idea. It took Carter...
The first number of Act II, "Prayin' Alive," led by Hal Elujah (Eric Ambald), the evangelic disco-loving preacher, decked out in a stained-glass-window-printed suit and sequined cross and papal collar, is one of the show's most electric moments. It demonstrates the skill not only of...
Falwell, in a speech entitled "The Evangelic Vote: Is It Monolithic?," stressed that the support from "evangelist followers" of groups like his own Moral Majority transcends political parties.
All this time, too, Springsteen had to do battle with the crosscurrents of high hopes and deep cynicism that eddied around him; there were those who thought his career was a classic case study in media hype. Although most of these critics never listened to his records or saw him...
"The people of Paris," wrote François Rabelais in the 16th Century, "are so foolish by nature that a juggler, a pardon-peddler, a mule with bells . . . will gather a bigger crowd than a good evangelic preacher ever could." Four centuries later, between 1920 and 1935, Parisian jugglers and...