Word: sickness
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...work of the Holy Spirit operating through Jesus Christ, Kathryn preaches no theology of healing. She no longer believes that faith necessarily earns healing, or that lack of faith necessarily forbids it. She has seen too many nonbelievers cured, too many believers go away still lame or sick. She refuses to promise individual healings: "I can't," she explains. "That's the sovereign...
Under the rule of Brezhnev and Kosygin, a grim new strain has entered into the Russian ballad. Some recent songs describe the insane asylums where more and more dissenters, whose "crimes" do not qualify for prosecution under Soviet law, are imprisoned with genuinely sick people. For example, Vladimir Vysotsky, a popular balladeer, has composed a song called The Psychiatric Lyric. He sings of the silent, incurable lunatics who stare at the terrified political prisoner as he lies in the ward. "They are madmen of all kinds, quiet ones, dirty ones-starved and beaten as part of their cure. If only...
...couple!"), but in addition to Charlie Lowe's, his mother enrolled him in the Professional Children's School in Manhattan. When the family lived for a year in West Orange, N.J., Elliott had to commute to school, and "got sick on the bus every time...
...recently married an educated woman after his tribal wife died. He says: "My former wife couldn't read or write. She spent her time in the kitchen with the children. She would choose a new wife for me, and she knew how to cure me if I was sick. I could lie to her, and it didn't matter. She was simple, but she understood me. My new wife is a college graduate. She won't let me have another wife. I can't lie to her because she knows when I'm lying...
Last winter's mail strike and this spring's air-traffic-controller "sick-out" dramatized the deep and spreading discontent among federal employees. Now unionized federal workers are openly talking about more strikes, despite the federal law that makes such action a crime punishable by a fine of $5.000 or a year in jail. Delegates to a Denver convention of the American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal union, two weeks ago shouted unanimous approval of an amendment that erased a no-strike clause from the union constitution. Partly because he opposed that move. Union President John...