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Ailey's impassioned plea is directed at his American Negro brethren. His mission is to awaken an appreciation of "the trembling beauty" of the Negro's cultural heritage-through dance, through "the exuberance of his jazz, the ecstasy of his spirituals, and the dark rapture of his blues." Trouble is, nobody is listening-in the U.S., that is. But in Europe the message is echoing loud and clear: the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, consisting of eleven young Negro dancers, has created perhaps the biggest sensation on the Continent since the tour of Jerome Robbins' Ballets: U.S.A...
...being stifled in segregated schools. Boston must become a testing ground for the ideals of freedom, and so I come to Boston on behalf of the future of America, on behalf of those frustrated people, black and white, to whom Jesus referred as 'the least of these my brethren...
...fourth annual gathering of theologians and clerical leaders to discuss Eugene Carson Blake's suggested superchurch of the United Presbyterians, Methodists, Episcopalians and the United Church of Christ, who have been joined, since Blake's 1960 proposal, by the Disciples of Christ and Evangelical United Brethren. "A decisive turning point," said Episcopal Bishop Robert Gibson of Virginia. Blake, the United Presbyterians' Stated Clerk, called it "a major step forward...
...three times more numerous than any other church involved in the consultation, and who seem more interested in cementing ties of friendship within world Methodism. Bishop F. Gerald Ensley of Columbus, Ohio, warned that his church "already has its hands full" negotiating its own merger with the Evangelical United Brethren...
After being released last winter, Corn signed an 84-page statement admitting that in the 1957 tax case he had sold his vote for $150,000, from which he said he paid $7,500 apiece to Justices Welch and Johnson. In 1959, Corn added, he paid his brethren another $2,500 apiece in an oil-lease case...