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Until last year George Augustus Stallings Jr. was one of the most visible black priests in America's Roman Catholic Church. Today the flamboyant Washington preacher is the church's leading renegade. Stallings last July spurned church orders and formed his own African-American Catholic Congregation. This week he plans to push his defiance one step further by having himself consecrated a bishop. What's more, the 42-year-old priest has just become embroiled in scandal: a series in the Washington Post last week accused Stallings of questionable financial dealings and homosexual improprieties with three persons, one of them...
...side of the impasse was Congressman Thomas Downey of New York, who wanted to pay for expanded day-care services through existing block grants to the states, which are less subject to Congress's political whims. On the other side was Congressman Augustus Hawkins of California, who wanted the Federal Government to give the money directly to child-care providers. Hawkins, an 82- year-old New Dealer who will retire from Congress this year after serving 14 terms, would like to be remembered for his work on a major new social program...
Legislators have also responded to the modest spending increases that Bush has proposed in education. Rep. Augustus F. Hawkins (D-Calif.), chair of the House Education and Labor Committee, expressed disappointment with the administration's proposals. Hawkins favors a plan to double the budget for education, according to members of his staff...
...small sculpture, of real substance and beauty: work by John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Eastman Johnson and William Harnett, and a bronze study of a black soldier's head done for the Shaw Memorial in Boston, his greatest public work of art, by Augustus Saint- Gaudens. And there is a great deal of poor to average American 19th century art -- clumsy, cliche ridden, provincial, earnest. But the show's point lies elsewhere: in the subject matter and how it is treated...
...Atlantic City they do, which is why the Boardwalk reflects both a grandiloquence imported from Las Vegas and an insistence on bourgeois comfort. Parading past the statue of Caesar Augustus (finger aloft, as if hailing a cab), the Boardwalk crowd offers an unself-conscious mixture: round middles barely disguised by oversize T shirts or bulging above cinched-in belts; conical straw hats; white socks in white sandals; baseball caps on balding heads; male decolletage; painted eyebrows; sequins in the daytime; polyester stretch pants; factory-knit acrylic cardigans; lots of polka dots; colors usually found only at the extremities...