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...Shall I fly . . ." The line, attributed to Shakespeare in the catalog, was unknown to Taylor. So one day last month he asked the Bodleian to show him its "Rawlinson Poetry Manuscript 160," a leather-bound collection of copied manuscripts that had been donated to the library in 1755 by Bishop Richard Rawlinson. There on leaf 108, all adorned with red curlicues, was the poem...
...circumscribed in every sense. Says Social Worker Lisa Rost, who counsels such youngsters at Project Hope in Chicago: "Some of these kids have never seen Lake Michigan." Pregnancy becomes one of the few accessible means of fulfillment. "Nobody gets more attention than a little girl who's pregnant," observes Bishop Earl Paulk of Chapel Hill Harvester Church, a Protestant church in Atlanta that sponsors a program for pregnant teens. "It feels good to be the center of things...
...Mandela's enforced absence, other leaders spoke out for the country's blacks. Most prominent among them was Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu of Johannesburg, the 1984 Nobel laureate, who took an important role in the drive to control the savagery of some of the violence. In July he saved the life of a black man suspected of being a police informant, after an angry mob had seized the man, set his car ablaze and tried to throw him into the flames. Tutu scolded a crowd of 30,000, threatening to "pack up and leave this beautiful country that I love...
Others, however, struggled to keep their faith. In his Christmas Day sermon at St. Mary's Cathedral in Johan nesburg, Nobel Prizewinner Bishop Desmond Tutu urged a congregation of some 400 blacks and whites to work toward peace and justice. Said Tutu: "Let us work so that Christmas 1986, unlike Christmas 1985, will be one where all of us, black and white, will be able to say, indeed, 'God is with us.' " It was a prayer that all South Africans could share. --By Janice C. Simpson. Reported by Peter Hawthorne/Johannesburg
...time, between World War I and World War II, segregation concentrated all levels of black society in Grand Boulevard, and a thriving nightclub scene attracted both blacks and whites to hear Duke Ellington, the Mills Brothers and Cab Galloway. Growing up in Pennsylvania, Alfred L. Bishop, now a funeral director on 47th Street, used to listen on his radio to Earl ("Fatha") Hines broadcasting "from the beautiful Grand Terrace theater in Chicago, Illinois." A dreamy, romantic-sounding place...