Word: abyssinian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Born in Manhattan in 1904, Fats grew up in Harlem, where his father was a pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, the establishment that Adam Clayton Powell Jr. later made famous. He started playing the harmonium when he was six, and his proud father took him to Carnegie Hall to hear Paderewski, hoping that Fats would become a classical pianist. Waller had other ideas, however, and when he was in his teens, he fell under the tutelage of Willie ("the Lion...
...does he move in a much straighter line as a writer. He is unable to resist just one more illustration, even if it means forgetting the point. The topics covered in his book range from A (as in Abyssinian salt) to Z (as in Zeno of Elea). He discourses upon the rise and fall of cities since the Roman Empire, the possibilities for growing grapes in Scotland, the rules for transmitting property among the Tartars, and of course the "Revolt of our American Colonies." Smith writes: "The rulers of Great Britain have, for more than a century past, amused...
Sarah's own mother died when she was three. Much later her father died. Then her nanny died. Everybody seems to die on Sarah, even her beloved Abyssinian cat, leaving her pretty much alone with a house in London, a house in Scotland and a frantic sense of emptiness that keeps her asking: "What is it that I must do?" In this mood she meets an unnamed psychiatrist and executes a textbook case of transference. When, in less than three years, her analyst dies too, Sarah attempts suicide (as she had done more than once before), then withdraws...
...late Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the pulpit at Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church served as a launching platform for an often influential, always controversial 24-year career in Congress. Now the believers at Abyssinian have elected a new pastor, but he vows to succeed Powell only in the pulpit. "I have no political ambitions," says the Rev. Dr. Samuel Proctor, 51. "A church needs care from a dynamic pastor who has the membership at heart." Proctor, however, has a few involvements of his own. He plans to keep his professorship at Rutgers University (philosophy of education, Afro-American...
...published in 1945. He expressed pride in his runaway-slave grandfather who in his late years still bore a scar inflicted by an angry slave owner. Powell's father came to New York City in 1908-the year Adam Jr. was born-to take the pastorship of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, which he helped build to a membership of 14,000, one of the largest Protestant congregations in the country. Kenneth Clark, the black social psychologist, recalled: "When, as a child, I first saw him, I thought he was God." He retired in 1937 and young Adam stepped into...