Word: annelies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of the underlying philosophical differences which had simmered through most of the week-long gathering were about to be translated into intolerant invective. For five days now, the 450 conference participants brought together in Ann Arbor, Michigan, had sought comprehensive strategies to make their religion a part of the solution to social and political injustices, both national and international. From the beginning of the conference, the diversity had been manifest with differing philosophies, analyses and strategies. The differences had grown with the organization, which was started six years before to protest the escalation in Vietnam. The leadership--concerned that...
...wrenching contradictions had been there from the first day. Tuesday, August 17. Driving to Ann Arbor through the dull flatlands of Michigan, we felt distant from any problems: the driver cruising at 85, the recurring billboard--"Farmer Pete's People Pleasin' Meats", the popular song on the radio, George Harrison's "Bengla Desh," ("So many people are dyin' fast....") The mood at the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor was serious. Jock Brown's "guerrilla liturgy" the first evening set the tone of searching for an awareness of each individual's complicity in the war. Jock, a minister from...
There was no doubt that commitment was here in Ann Arbor. Clergy and laymen were concerned, but the problem was where that concern should be channelled. They were trying to change directions, but they didn't know...
Sunday morning, the wounds of the last night seemed to be on the mend. It was another sunny day, as most of the week had been. In the basement, Ross Flanagan was re-grouping some people for a protest at Ann Arbor churches. The last service was over. Many of the people were on their way home, but those gathering now had one more protest to make. The city's churches had obtained a court injunction to prevent protestors from disrupting their services by handing out a statement to the morning worshippers, protesting "the resort to police power, whether...
Williams is being vindicated. Last week his experimental car, a specially fitted American Motors Hornet, with a turbine engine tucked away under the hood, made its first appearance. Whining slightly, it was tested at the federal Environmental Protection Agency's lab at Ann Arbor, Mich. EPA officials were delighted with the engine, which works by using compressed air to drive its turbines. Compact, vibrationless and delivering 80 h.p., it runs on any hydrocarbon fuel from kerosene to coal oil. and gets about 15 miles per gallon in urban traffic. It is also 30% lighter...