Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life began to fall apart. He had two children whom he adored, but his marriage was breaking up. When Piedmont transferred Lavrinc to Washington, he left his wife and children in Norfolk. Always a thoughtful man, he turned more and more to religion. He joined the fundamentalist Cherrydale Independent Baptist Church in Arlington, attended Sunday services, Bible study classes, prayer meetings, and kept a diary in which he recorded his deepest religious feelings. Before the end of 1957, he filed suit for divorce, charging that Bonnie Lavrinc had "manifested interest in other men." Bonnie filed a cross-suit charging cruelty...
...syncopated uptempo mode that pounds along like a steam locomotive. There's "sweet gospel " the gentler, lilting expression that finds its balm in folk dirges such as Steal Away to Jesus or Go Down Moses. Then there's "hallelujah shout," which can set ginmill customers or Southern Baptist congregations to clapping and chanting at the first blaring note...
...April 30 Report from Moscow (NBC, 1:30-2 p.m.). Cameras and microphones invade typical Baptist church services in Moscow in order to record the scenes and music...
Birch was eventually transferred to the Office of Strategic Services and was assigned late in the war to a tiny, scorpion-infested base at Sian in North China. Baptist Birch is remembered as a loner with a somewhat overbearing manner. In his diary, Major Gustav Krause, commanding officer of the base, gravely noted: "Birch is a good officer, but I'm afraid is too brash and may run into trouble...
...Roman Emperor Constantine III (612-641 A.D.) marches into Monza, determined to sweep the Lombards out of Italy. But he pauses long enough to consult a bearded old hermit whom the townspeople called "The Prophet." The Prophet learns from the Archangel St. Michael, from St. Peter and John the Baptist that any attempt to capture Monza would meet disaster, because the piety of Theodolinda had won the town heavenly protection. The Emperor decides to take his war elsewhere. With that timely save, Queen Theodolinda passes from history...