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Good Manners. Some of the contributions doubtless come from new, affluent friends who have found Oral Roberts University a source of civic pride and a haven of good academic manners (boys in ties, girls in skirts, no smoking anywhere). But most of the support probably still comes from the millions who read the magazines, follow Roberts on radio or television, and send for free gifts. A typical gift last Christmas was a replica of a Judean oil lamp (with a candle in it); this Easter there will be a plate emblazoned with "He is not here. He is risen." Recipients...
...O.R.U., perhaps partly because students are attracted by its heavily subsidized fees: $2,050 for board, room and tuition. The citizens of Tulsa have chipped in $2.7 million to help build a $9,000,000 special events center on the campus, which will also serve as Tulsa's civic auditorium. Beyond Tulsa, Roberts' audience seems to be broadening. Roman Catholics, who once castigated his pentecostal healing, now number 15% of his letter writers. Many of them, he says, are nuns...
...frame for big dance scenes. These had a scalp-tingling power. The gorgeous A Real Slow Drag ended the opera with a ceremonious eroticism that nearly matched Joplin's music. Alpha Floyd, in the title role of a foundling whose book learning propels her into civic leadership, produced a bright, reedy soprano but had stiff presence. Simon Estes, as Treemonisha's father Ned, draped Joplin's curvaceous melodies in rolling voluminous sound. But with surprisingly lackluster support from Conductor Robert Shaw, Treemonisha's effect was blander than the score deserved...
After a short debate among the nine councillors. Vellucci's motion failed by a 5-4 vote with the five Cambridge Civic Association councillors--Mayor Barbara Ackermann, Saundra Graham, Henry F. Owens. Robert Moncreiff, and Francis Duehay--voting against the motion while independents Vellucci, Walter Sullivan, Daniel Clinton, and Thomas Danehy voted for the order...
Breny said that The League of Women Voters was the only organization that officially supported the petition campaign, but that leaders of many civic organizations were involved. "This is a people's movement," she added...