Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your Essay "How America Drinks" [Dec. 29] was enlightening and encouraging to me as a nondrinker of the dry Baptist tradition, and a pastor at that. However, I'd like to be assured that "the average American knows how to handle his liquor" and his powerful car on a crowded highway as well. I'd like to see a freer social attitude so that some might choose to be nondrinkers without pressure by advertising and social custom to get with the crowd. Try to see my thoughts and beliefs as honest and objective and not in the fanatic...
...First Baptist Church...
Floyd B. McKissick, the CORE leader and an old college friend of Lowenstein's, calls it "relevancy." Barney Frank '62, Mayor Kevin White's administrative assistant, calls Lowenstein's style "political practicality." Newsweek recently dubbed him "John the Baptist," the Saint who prepared the way for Senator Eugene J. McCarthy's presidential candidacy...
Lowenstein at 38 looks more like a Jewish New York lawyer than John the Baptist. Of average height with thick black glasses and short black hair, Lowenstein now usually dresses in a slightly rumpled business suit. Before his marriage a little more than a year ago, it wasn't unusual to see him conducting meetings with college students in a white T-shirt and an old pair of chinos...
...music," says Aretha Franklin, "is me-and I'm not sure what that is." Her confusion is understandable. At 25, she is still Aretha the Baptist minister's daughter, the former teenage gospel singer in her father's church in Detroit, the shy girl who regards the glamorous trappings of show business as "a game." She can overcome her nervousness at singing in public only by imagining that she is "just at a party, and the audience is just my friends...