Word: amens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ourselves a mayor!" cried a white college student from New York. "We did it! We did it!" exulted a middle-aged Negro man. "Amen, amen," murmured an elderly Negro woman, tears starting from her eyes. It was 3:02 a.m. at a downtown hotel, and Cleveland, the nation's tenth biggest city, had just chosen as its mayor Carl Burton Stokes, great-grandson of a slave, over Seth Taft, grandson of a President...
Mystic Cult. With the Beatles cutting out personal appearances and thus needing him less and less, Epstein built up a management agency for other big-beat talent. He bought a West End theater and produced such works as James Baldwin's Amen Corner. He also made a none too impressive debut as host of a five-minute segment of NBC's Hullabaloo TV series...
...room of the Young Women's Christian Association head quarters in Detroit, under banners reading DRY CRUSADERS and CONSERVATIVE-AMERICAN-CHRISTIAN, were some 50 delegates of the Prohibition Party. When a speaker really got warmed up, the delegates, with a rustling of shawls, erupted in lusty choruses of "Amen!" For pep songs, they turned to the New Day Temperance Songs pamphlet. For hardhitting oratory, they had Michigan Fundamentalist Charles Ewing, who deplored life under the Great Society as "a syncopated Watusi," in which "grey-haired mothers and grandmothers have shortened their skirts, exposed their bones, lit up their cigarettes...
...Pittsburgh, where the Amen Corner-an organization of business and professional men-gave him a cordial reception, three local John Birch Society members announced formation of a Wallace-for-President group. Wallace said he welcomed their support because the Birchers he knew in Alabama were fine folks and stout antiCommunists...
...experience of Christian people." Contending that current doctrine too often accentuates the negative, the young priest was quoted as saying: "Even the Boy Scout oath sounds more positive than the Ten Commandments." In a subsequent book, Christian Morality Today, he flatly insisted that "I have added my own 'Amen' to those who are asking for a change in the present teaching of the Church" on birth control...