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...playing Carnegie is the highest honor that can be bestowed upon a musician, and the older more sophisticated audience, as well as the musicians, were more dignified and restrained than their younger counterparts. The evening was dedicated to the late Art Tatum. Nine pianists, including special guest star Eubie Blake, took their respective turns at the piano...
Steve McQueen and Barbra Streisand were there, as were Eugene Carson Blake, former General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, and Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein. So were ten Democratic Senators and twelve black members of the House of Representatives, as well as the New York Times, the Washington Post and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and (would you believe?) Joe Namath...
...true. Activism is in retreat within America's "name brand" churches [May 28]. Denominations are retrenching. But to interpret the defeat of Eugene Carson Blake for Moderator of the United Presbyterian General Assembly as a repudiation of the '60s is to misunderstand. That same assembly deplored the continued bombing of Cambodia and Laos, supported the boycott of lettuce and grapes, and returned the U.P. Church to the Consultation on Church Union. Marks of an era not wholly spurned...
...then, did Activist-Ecumenist Blake lose? Because another candidate, Clinton Marsh, won. In contrast to Blake's understated style, Marsh's answers to questions rang with vigor and charisma...
...social objectives of the liberal Blake-ite leaders but their methods that cost the church members and money. When conservative Presbyterians pleaded for a little more common sense and a little less grandstanding emotion in church policies, they were brushed aside by their liberal brethren. Bigotry comes in many forms; Presbyterian liberals managed to display one of its least attractive aspects, the "holier-than-thou" complex...