Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SARAH'S BACKGROUND does parallel Lee's; she too, is a child of middle-class Philadelphia Blacks. Her father is a preacher in the prosperous and ironically named New African Church. Reverend Phillips is also active in the civil rights movement. Sarah recalls Sunday sermons punctuated by Baptist baptisms with the same uneasiness she feels about the historic March on Washington, in which her parents participated. To the young Sarah, the civil rights movement seems "dull, a necessary burden on my conscience, like good grades or hungry people in India." For a girl whose most dramatic bouts with racism...
...contend with. Except for Lotto, Tintoretto and Bassano, and some beautiful works by Annibale Carracci, Adam Elsheimer and Guido Reni, most of this is deadwood and of interest mainly to specialists. Moreover, the climactic efforts of Caravaggio's career, like the Beheading of St. John the Baptist in Malta (which must be the most sublimely concrete work of the tragic imagination painted between the death of Michelangelo and the maturity of Rembrandt), are not here. So it is best to treat the Met's show as a preparation for pilgrimage and to ignore the blatant copies, pastiches and restored wrecks...
...that "with His stripes we are healed" (Isaiah 53: 5). Instead of throwing drumsticks into the audience, these metal missionaries toss out about 500 imitation-leather copies of the New Testament. "We are rock-'n'-roll evangelists," says Drummer Robert Sweet, 24. "Stryper is a modern-day John the Baptist crying in the world of rock for those who don't have the life of Christ to turn on the light switch. Our message...
...Attacked the argument that divestment could wreak havoc on income form Harvard's $2.324 billion endowment, some of which goes for financial aid.. "if students at Harvard want to get their aid on the prerogroty is like a doughnut-it has a hole in it," the Baptist minister said...
...particular demand for boards are women and minority-group members. Juanita Kreps, Secretary of Commerce under President Carter, serves on ten boards, including American Telephone & Telegraph and Chrysler. Leon H. Sullivan, the pastor of Philadelphia's Zion Baptist Church, serves on three corporate boards: General Motors, Mellon Bank and the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society...