Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...center of the controversy is Susan Miller, 43, a onetime Southern Baptist and civilian employee of the Colorado Springs, Colo., police. In 1982 she embraced Reform Judaism, adopting the Hebrew first name Shoshana. When Miller moved to Israel in 1985, the Interior Ministry questioned the validity of her conversion because it had been supervised by a Reform rabbi. Thus, said the government, Miller was not eligible for the automatic citizenship granted Jews under Israel's Law of Return...
...acid rain, exploding shuttles, decaying inner cities and general creeping dystopia. The mood is epitomized in objects like the male costume of the future dreamed up for Vogue -- a bearded figure in an immaculate white jumpsuit wearing a circular antenna as a halo on his head, John the Baptist among the insulators. Everything is streamlined, even objects that are screwed down and cannot move, so that America's breathless rush toward Utopia is clearly signified by things like a 1933 Raymond Loewy metal teardrop desk-mounted pencil sharpener. In the twelve years between the Wall Street Crash and Pearl Harbor...
...father could handle a little guitar ("Three chords and a few blues licks," his son says. "Nothing to be scared of") and played lots of gospel tapes at home. The sweet, lofting sounds of the Five Blind Boys and the Dixie Hummingbirds complemented services every Sunday at the local Baptist church. Even so, Cray considered becoming an architect -- a desire that survived only three courses in mechanical drawing and one encounter with an old Muddy Waters record. Enter the blues. "It's so beautiful, the guys really believe in what they're saying," says Cray. "There's no fear...
...coffee house set mixed with the soup kitchen crowd last night at a seven-hour benefit concert for the homeless in the Old Cambridge Baptist Church...
...plight of the homeless will be the focus of "Streetwise," a concert first conceived by Harvard students more than three years ago, that will be held in the Old Cambridge Baptist Church in Cambridge, this evening from 5 p.m. to midnight...