Word: christian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cannibalized by the people in her life that she serves her fiance a bride made of sponge cake and icing, then flees from the altar. Gone too is Atwood's allegorizing. In last year's The Handmaid's Tale she offered a vision of America transformed into a Fundamentalist Christian theocracy...
...size of the Black student body began to increase--and still supports almost a dozen Afro-American organizations on campus. Since the 1970s, Blacks have also held prominent leadership positions in campus administration, including Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Rev. Peter J. Gomes, who is the minister of Memorial Church...
...BayBanks installs automatic teller machines in the pillars of Memorial Church. Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter Gomes delivers a six-hour address, "Automatic Teller Machines and Our Puritan Tradition." The address makes no sense, but the audience is asleep and fails to notice...
...duchess. Young Irene is faced with cold, snowdrifts and night. Lesser individuals might need rescuers, but this child has ingenuity to go with her spunk. She turns the dress box into a toboggan and slides her way to the ball. Young ladies have come a long way since Hans Christian Andersen's little match girl froze her toes in the snow...
...area around suburban Riverside, Ill., where he lives with his second wife Harriet, a voice coach. Ever quotable, he is constantly sought by reporters looking for quick bursts of wisdom on subjects ranging from Pat Robertson's presidential campaign to baby boomers. Marty writes a column for the Christian Century, the liberal Protestant weekly. He also decides what books the Century reviews and writes for numerous other journals. A self-confessed magazine junkie, he receives 250 periodicals and culls them for a fortnightly newsletter...