Word: churches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White House wedding if she wished, she stuck firmly to her idea of keeping the ceremony private. With the guest list and other details a closely kept secret, she and Dwight David Eisenhower II, Ike's grandson, will be married Sunday at Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church...
There was no secret, at least, about why she chose the church: she much admires Marble Collegiate's pastor, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, author of the bestselling The Power of Positive Thinking (who was bedded down late last week with a case of flu complicated by hiccups). Her family has often attended his church. Julie shares a copy of Peak's book with a Smith classmate and brides maid, Anne Davis, who says: "Dr. Peale has helped us through all the rough spots."* Sample Peale advice to newly weds: "Couples who pray together grow together-and stick together...
...considered an irrelevant curriculum. Taylor organized a group called the "Modern Strivers." With the help of George Rhodes, Washington's assistant superintendent for secondary schools, the Strivers worked out a written proposal for their own freedom school.* They raised funds, got the loan of two floors in a church-owned building and a promise of volunteer bus service from Washington's Urban League...
...three Harvard students affected are James Prior and Leland Sanderson, second-year Divinity students,. and Dick Behm, a third-year student. All three handed in their draft cards at a rally at Arlington Street Church on October 16, 1967. The Supreme Court ruling came on a case appealed by James J. Ostereich, a divinity student at Newton Centre, who also handed in his card at the rally...
Styron exhibits little knowledge and less affection when it comes to black institutions, specifically the church. Since Styron has contemplated this book since 1948, and spent eight years in the actual writing of it, it is singular that he devoted no attention at all to he Spiritualist sects, of which Turner was clearly one of the more outstanding members. Styron's character is not even well enough acquainted with the church's rhetoric to speak in the vernacular. He constantly refers to "visions" from Heaven. Modern black clergy would refer to the same Occurrences as visits from the Spirit...