Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...mother, Carlotta, twice divorced and $35 million to her name, even sees fit to keep him provided with a present, if rarely loving, wife. But perhaps just because he knows he has made it, just as Maria knows she can never make it, BZ is a kindred spirit, capable of also seeing the nothingness beneath the would-be being...
...some point there must be a final line, the line which Camus says defines the revolutionary situation, where one says this much and no more, and picks up a gun. A time when a meaningless death, though politically wrong, might be the only response left to a dying spirit...
...about two hundred years after Blake came home to tell his parents about the angels in the trees, Allen Ginsberg had the rare privilege of hearing William Blake recite "Ah! Sunflower" to him while he lay in his bed in Harlem. The spirit also crooned "The Sick Rose" and "The Little Girl Lost" to the prone Ginsberg...
...intensely personal religious experience in 1946-which she speaks of only as her "baptism of the Holy Spirit"-inspired Kathryn to begin preaching regularly about the Holy Spirit. Healing came by accident, when a woman announced one night that she had been cured of a tumor during a previous Kuhlman sermon...
Sovereign Act. Beyond her repeated assertion that it all is the 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...