Word: amens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...black clergymen in New York. Georgia Congressman Andrew Young, 44, an ordained Congregationalist minister, told the group that it was no accident that Carter is in tune with blacks. Announced Young: "By the grace of God, Jimmy's next-door neighbor was a black bishop." Responded the ministers: "Amen!" Continued Young: "From the early days of his life, he had to watch that bishop drive his long black Packard by his house." "Amen." "His father and the bishop used to have prayer meetings together." "Amen." "In a mysterious way, the Lord gets his things together." "Amen...
...have an army, units and officers like these. But I hope we never have to repeat it." Less restrained was the Israeli radio announcer who first broadcast a hint of what was under way. "Hallelujah!" he exclaimed, to which the rest of the civilized world could now only say "Amen," as one of the most brazen terrorist acts in recent years has come to a surprising and welcome resolution...
...worms, lilies, a dead dove. But for the rest, he remains the creator of a small miracle: the only man besides John Updike who can write about salvation and damnation in a world rapidly becoming trivialized by loneliness and loss of ardor, a world with an end but no amen...
Arab Americans have long been among the nation's least visible and vocal minorities. Al Amen, an Arab community activist in Dearborn, Mich., says he could not get a job at a local community college because, in the words of a college official: "You're not black, you're not white, and you don't speak Spanish." He complains that Arab Americans, contemptuously called "camel jockeys," are never given time off for Islamic holidays. Arab Americans are relatively small in number-between 1 million and 1.5 million -and they are dispersed in the nation and split...
...Amen...