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Word: baptiste (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...music; especially memorable was Halpern's sassy "Wild Women Don't Get the Blues" Finally, there was Stephanie Wilford-Foster, who maintained the most compelling presence throughout the evening, drawing the subtle meaning out of the prose selections in a superior performance. In her closing number, evoking the Southern Baptist spirituals from which jazz sprung, Wiford-Foster was nothing less than inspirational in her preacher -like solo. In the band, Paul Brusiloff provides a hot trumpet, while Leon Greunbaum is fine on the piano. A Don Braden solo on the tenor saxophone, a la Stanley Turrentine, was very good once...

Author: By Stuart A. Anfang, | Title: All That Good | 2/8/1985 | See Source »

Some antiabortion activists admitted to having mixed emotions about the bombings. "This isn't terrorism," insisted the Rev. David Shofner, pastor of West Pensacola Baptist Church and a frequent picketer at abortion clinics. "This is destruction of property. History will prove that the bombers will be the heroes because they stopped the killing of babies." Declared John Burt, head of Our Father's House, a Pensacola home for unmarried mothers: "I don't approve of the means, but I'm glad that the killing has stopped. Upwards of 350 babies are killed each week in Pensacola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Explosions Over Abortion | 1/14/1985 | See Source »

...controversial eleven-year-old faith-healing sect, the Faith Assembly, whose 2,000 members are taught to shun medicine on the grounds that it is linked to witchcraft and that doctors are little better than magicians; of heart disease, pneumonia and gangrene; in Shoe Lake, Ind. Freeman, a former Baptist Bible scholar who told his followers that he would not die because prayer had enabled him to survive several heart attacks and an auto accident, was indicted last October in the death of a 15-year-old disciple from chronic kidney disease. The Fort Wayne (Ind.) News-Sentinel has reported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 24, 1984 | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

During the day Estella has been learning English and knitting a rug. She also helps workers in the Central American Solidarity Association and New Institute of Central America offices at the Baptist church. She says she has met "muchos amigos" since she has been in Cambridge which include people from her homeland...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Salvadoran Finds Refuge in Cambridge | 12/18/1984 | See Source »

Some of the Central Americans she talked to live in sanctuary with private families, which is what Estella may do after she leaves the Baptist church's sanctuary this week. Most Central American refugees stay in sanctuary with churches for a limited time in order to protest U.S. deportation policies...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Salvadoran Finds Refuge in Cambridge | 12/18/1984 | See Source »

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