Word: baptiste
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...Buchanan sounded downright evangelical for a politician, one evangelist in particular sounded mighty like a politician. He was Marion Gordon ("Pat") Robertson, 55, head of the Christian Broadcasting Network and a fixture on CBN's four-times-a-day The 700 Club. Robertson, a Southern Baptist, has been transmitting signals that he might join the race for the Republican nomination to succeed Reagan. Political pros are uncertain how big a factor he could be in the primaries, let alone the convention, but they are convinced that he could energize the Christian right and siphon votes from other candidates. True believers...
Following the Star: Mistral Vocal Ensemble, Old Cambridge Baptist Church, Friday and Saturday...
Advent Jazz Vespers: Old Cambridge Baptist Chuirch, Friday...
Drexel was not the first college to make personal computers mandatory; in 1982 Stevens Institute required its science students to buy their own PCs, and in 1983 Clarkson and Dallas Baptist extended the idea to include all incoming freshmen. Now computers are required or strongly recommended at more than a dozen schools, including Carnegie-Mellon, Colby, Dartmouth, Drew, Franklin and Marshall, Lehigh, LeTourneau and Sweet Briar. But none of these schools has integrated the machines into its curriculum as thoroughly as Drexel has. And none has been as dramatically transformed by computers as the Philadelphia school...
This is the home of sowbelly breakfasts and the Better Baptist Bureau, where the folks will tell you that lying is a hell of a better time than telling the truth and "Patsy Cline never dies." Co-stars Joe Sears and Jaston Williams' talent for spinning tall-tales generates a community of pokey, parched lives whose regional prejudices do their best to convince you that this is the town the Enlightenment overlooked...