Title

Great souls: six who changed the century.

Description

Personal character profiles of Billy Graham, Mother Teresa, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Pope John Paul II, Elie Wiesel, Nelson Mandela.

Identifier

2500182

849909651

Creator

Aikman, David

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

1998

Program air date: May 3, 1998

Publisher

Word Pub.

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations

Notes on front endpapers: Aikman--“a Christian believer.” 1962--arrived in Israel to perform Romeo and Juliet. David A--student of Russian at Oxford 60's. What role did deaths in the family play on your Great Souls. Solzhenitsyn--Harvard 1978 speech/ the red wheel novel, Russian Orthodox, Young Pioneers. 1. 1989--my interview; 2. 1994 accompanied him by train; 3. saw him 1995 with TV crew. Notes/Underlinings: Notes: “Kip Jordan,” “C.S. Lewis,” “6 principles,” “conservatives v. Liberals,” “Great soul,” “Nobel Prize,” “4 elements,” “great moral impact,” “character, convictions, ideas,” “3 born 1918,” “3 prison,” “2 divorce,” “2 marriages successful,” “qualities in common,” “not perfect,” “warmed my soul,” “morality, virtue,” “seek to emulate them,” “Montreat, N.C.,” “change in his career,” “1997,” “210 million,” “magazine,” “movies,” “radio,” “17 books,” “awards,” “Cath schism,” “popes,” “J. Paul II,” “accomplished 3 things,” “b. 1918,” “6'2”,” “father injured,” “May 1934,” “Charlotte,” “Nov 6, 1934,” “March 1938,” “Ruth 1975,” “married 1943,” “5 children,” “bigotry,” “women,” “The Modesto Manifesto,” “never alone w women 1983 Hilary Clinton,” “the Bible,” “30 years old,” “salary $101,250,” “206 crusades 182 cities,” “racism,” “Churchill 'no hope',” “Truman 1950,” “1990 Nixon's journal,” “registered Demo.,” “Johnson,” “love for Dick Nixon,” “Nixon funeral,” “told me in 1975,” “biting my nails,” “May 1982,” “Cell Block B,” “ANC,” “Communists,” “forgiveness,” “Feb 1990 released from prison,” “whites,” “forgiveness,” “Dutch, farmers, Boers,” “1901 Boer War,” “expected bloodbaths didn't happen,” “forgive ,” “2 marriages,” “dignity,” “prayer,” “politics of grace,” “b. 1918,” “British education,” “father dies at age 9, Great Place--home,” “Sundays,” “Great Place until 16,” “1939 university,” “Oliver Tambo,” “student council election,” “Brides selected for Justice and Mandela,” “Treason Trial,” “like to incite an audience,” “Winnie,” “prison Robben Island,” “visitor every 6 months,” “newspaper,” “Badenhorst,” “death of mother, son,” “Brent dies in car,” “exercise in cell,” “prison switch 1982,” “Koebie Coetsee visits,” “Dec 1989 De Klerk meeting,” “ANC 62.6% of vote,” “Forgiveness,” “3 meetings,” “sense of awe,” “changed the world,” “age 9 a writer,” “Young Pioneers,” “deep gash,” “Marxist-Leninist thought,” “marriage,” “1941 Nazi invasion,” “despised Stalin,” “gang leader,” “arrested,” “treason,” “3 days without sleep,” “Gulag,” “8 years,” “an informer,” “Vitkevich had changed,” “divorce,” “1953 release from prison,” “Dec '53 cancer returned,” “Natalya reunited,” “in the West,” “Andrey Sakharov,” “Aug 1968 28 yr old Natalya,” “1973 divorce,” “1968 he was 50,” “Nobel for Lit. 1970,” “suicide attempt,” “3 sons,” “Sept 1973 Gulag,” “greatest indictment,” “Germany will take him,” “6 agents show up,” “Zurich,” “1974 Nobel Peace Prize,” “Vermont protected privacy,” “18 years in US,” “Harvard 1978,” “liberals didn't like speech,” “anti-Semitic,” “1994 return to Russia,” “TV talk show,” “Is there a calling,” “grace and faith,” “interview not used,” “Muggeridge,” “Mary-like,” “126 nations, 4000 nuns,” “1979 Nobel prize,” “b. 1910,” “Nikola dies at 45,” “Letnice pilgrimages,” “her mother's charitableness,” “Jesuits,” “Sodality,” “13 yrs old missionaries,” “Drana died 1972,” “decision time Aug 1928,” “Hearing directly from God,” “18 years later in India,” “1928 leaves for Ireland and Paris,” “returned 42 years later,” “Calcutta Jan. 6, 1929,” “Lazar,” “*a divine summons, a call within a call,” “Sept 10, 1946,” “own community of nuns,” “Aug 1949 1st step,” “Oct 7, 1950,” “slums people dying,” “rest house,” “WASH, DC audience,” “I was 20 ft away,” “1979 Nobel Prize,” “1994 DC prayer breakfast,” “Lazar 53 married,” “1965 300 sisters,” “money for Franciscans,” “Sept 1997 died 87,” “Michele Duvalier,” “Keating and Ito,” “Hitchens,” “obsession with poverty,” “Jesus my everything,” “agape,” “950 mil Catholics,” “58,” “health deteriorating,” “112 countries,” “collapse of Communism,” “Cuba 1998,” “1979 Polish visit,” “liberation theology,” “Gorbachev Dec 1989 Vatican,” “Pope's role,” “doctrinal conservatism,” “*20th century Brutality,” “materialism,” “private spiritual walk,” “b. 1920,” “Lolek,” “mother dies at 8,” “1932 brother Edmund dies,” “clean language as a teenager,” “theater,” “Leopold Tyranoeski,” “hiking trips,” “1958 Bishop of Krakow,” “secret police in Eastern Europe,” “1967 cardinal,” “American luxury,” “a book,” “Aug 7, 1978 P. Paul 6 dies,” “J.P.I dies in 32 days,” “against liberation theology,” “Cologne Declaration,” “greatest speech of his papacy,” “Freedom,” “magisterium,” “Redeemer of Mankind,” “1979 Poland visit,” “KGB launched campaign,” “assassination attempt,” “woman priest,” “Birth control,” “Billy Graham on Pope J.P. II,” “greatest Christian leader of the 20th century,” “one of the most exemplary figures in all of Christian history,” “Holocaust,” “Night 1960,” “35 books,” “Nobel 1986,” “He asks Questions,” “b. 1928,” “age 8 something special happened,” “the Germans,” “Moshe the Beadle,” “prayer,” “Germany saved him,” “yellow star,” “no warning came to Romanian Jews,” “Maria's hut,” “Wiesels board train in June,” “cattle cars,” “children into inferno,” “3 executed,” “Where is God now?” “Shlomo dies Jan 29 1945,” “underground rises up,” “sister Hilda, Bea in Germany,” “Shushani's spell,” “1948 age 19,” “vow,” “Palestine,” “Rabin fired shot on Palmach,” “Canada,” “India,” “Brazil,” “10 years of silence,” “1954 turning point,” “Wiesel's anger spills over,” “Mauriac wept, must speak,” “1956 taxi hits him,” “new sense of urgency,” “6-10 everyday,” “Aikman to Israel,” “Night 1960 in U.S.,” “making a fortune out of Holocaust.” Underlinings: experience as journalist, influence of those profiled, reasons for selection, common points, details on personal lives, family, background, education, career, beliefs, challenges, accomplishments, sorrows, vocations.

Subject

"Biography--20th century."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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