Word: churches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...military, the key to his power. Noriega may also be looking over his shoulder more often at rank-and-file members of the PDF , as the general's election analysts concede that significant numbers of uniformed voters chose Endara over Duque. Even Panama's highly influential Roman Catholic Church, which had remained silent throughout the crisis, felt compelled to issue a statement deploring Noriega's effort to "frustrate popular will...
Moreover, Jones was adaptable. When he was designing the piazza of Covent Garden with its integrated church of St. Paul, the Earl of Bedford (who was paying for it) told Jones he wanted the church to be "not much better than a barn." "Well, then! You shall have the handsomest barn in England," Jones answered, and produced it. He never delegated a design or failed to transform what he copied. He thought -- and drew -- in terms of large volumes, generous spaces, exalted plainness relieved by lucid, ingenious detailing. Later Georgian architects would owe him an immense debt...
...Church support for fair elections is a newfactor in the political equation here, where thechurch has not been as influential as it is inNicaragua or El Salvador...
...pillars of American civic righteousness are here: the YWCA choir, the Boy Scouts, the 4-H club, the church-sponsored floats, even the pom-pom girls strutting their stuff to the strains of Happy Days Are Here Again. It could, really, be any All-American small town putting on an Independence Day parade on any village green. Except that this truly is, in the strict anthropological sense, a village, and the green here is really, really green. And the girls are dressed in grass skirts, and so too are many of the boys, with sashes of flowers across their oiled...
SENIOR WRITERS: David Brand, Tom Callahan, Margaret Carlson, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, Robert Hughes, Walter Isaacson, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Frederick Painton, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, Frank Trippett...