Word: aunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When it comes to sex, the U.S. Government can be as prim as a Victorian maiden aunt. About one-fifth of all federal civil service employees who have been dismissed for misconduct in recent years have been fired because the Government found they had engaged in conduct that was "notorious, scandalous and subject to public censure." Now that policy is under heavy attack on a variety of constitutional and statutory grounds...
...Travels with My Aunt, Greene...
...Travels with My Aunt, Greene...
...making it. My own poems sounded as if they'd been written in 1908. Even the Berryman Dream Songs I got for Christmas, ingenious and moving as they were, seemed somehow too contrived, too removed from brutality and the raw news to speak with any authority. My aunt, who gave me the book (and is no fool), didn't understand it. And she likes Sylvia Plath, I couldn't fault her for not hearing Berryman-he wasn't talking to her. He was busy talking to Henry. It was often superb if you could figure it out, but why should...
...says Marshall, black Christians must relearn the wholehearted involvement with religion that typifies the churches' "Aunt Janes,"* and that they lost when some denominations became "too white" in style. Only in a revitalized religion, says Marshall, can blacks find the spiritual energy to win and keep power. Marshall's parting benediction at Sunday services, appropriately, is "Peace and power." His Tuesday-night sermons during Lent dwelt on the power of the Holy Spirit to transform lives. "We need the church to be a spiritual organism," shouted Marshall in one sermon, "where the Spirit of God goes out into...