Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Opposition to the new law was sharp and quick. "Patently unconstitutional," declared Paul Hubbert, executive director of the Alabama Educational Association. Earl Potts of the Alabama Baptist Convention objected on different grounds. Said he: "We need prayer in the public schools, but I don't think the government should provide the prayer to be used. What legislators are not realizing is that the government could become more involved in prescribing what its citizens should be doing...
...Depression-hit Laguna artists. A year later, Painter John Hinchman hit on the idea of staging tableaux vivants, similar to the scenes mounted on Sundays in some Victorian parlors. The "stage" was a roped-off section of a street. As Salome holding the severed head of John the Baptist, Margo Goddard, now 71, became the pageant's first nude in 1936 but swore she would never pose again after the organizers forgot to build her a dressing room. "I had to hide behind a neighbor's garage," she recalls. "The stagehands kept running over to peek...
President, Baptist Union of Ireland
...anti-nuclear movement in Christianity spans faiths from Catholicism to the Society of Friends, and this year extended to formerly conservative churches such as the Southern Baptist church, which originally ordained the Rev. Billy Graham...
Moyers, given unprecedented leeway at CBS, is a different matter. Bright, ambitious and articulate, he set out to be a Baptist preacher, became Lyndon Johnson's press secretary, and has built up a considerable television following, almost a cult, for his documentaries. At 47, he is on the way to becoming a formidable asset for CBS, but riskily so in ways that he and CBS may not realize. His documentary 3½ weeks ago, on Reagan's poverty victims, was powerful stuff and drew a Reagan demand for a half-hour reply. CBS refused. Critics have sought...