Word: clergyman
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...fight as a member of the Islamic, antigovernment mujahedin. More to the point, he was close to Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the fiery blind Muslim preacher whose fundamentalist sermons may have inspired the alleged bombers. Abohalima acted as the sheik's driver and did chores around the clergyman's house. When a rival of the sheik's in the Brooklyn, New York, fundamentalist community was stabbed and shot to death, Abohalima was considered a prime suspect. One federal official said of him and the bombing, "He has the expertise...
...town is more emblematic of the South's segregationist past than Selma, Alabama, where black Baptist clergyman Martin Luther King Jr. led a climactic civil rights march in 1965. But a racial line has now disappeared in Selma, as delegates from 24 congregations in Alabama's dominant Southern Baptist faith voted to admit the Freedom Baptist Church as the first black member of the city's Baptist association. Said newly entering pastor Letha Rumph: "I can see that a revival has begun in Selma." A white colleague, the Rev. Ron Davis, chimed in: "God won't let us fail...
...siren song & turns little boys into prematurely dirty men. Once the U.S. cinema was ruled by sentiment; now it is tyrannized by cynicism. Movies have assumed the omniscient sneer of a '50s greaser; they mock or duck any authority, whether the unfeeling parent, the stodgy teacher, the irrelevant clergyman or the brutal cop. And where once there was subtlety in popular art, now there is sensation. Traditional standards have given way to tribal impulses, which push Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers aside to make way for a dance of the seven veils. By now the dancer is naked; the next...
...much as $500,000 at auction. It may also underscore how important it is to have everything in writing -- a reminder that might have spared Ronald Reagan some embarrassment. In his speech to the Republican National Convention, Reagan misattributed to Lincoln maxims actually written by a 20th century Presbyterian clergyman...
...Angeles steak joint in the late '30s and almost a half-decade later, signed him up for his fledgling Capitol Records. Cole was, even then, a sure jazz spirit and a first-rate singer. Born Nathaniel Adams Coles in Montgomery, Ala., in 1919, he had moved with his clergyman father and family to Chicago in 1923 and started to play professionally while he was still a teenager. Guitarist Oscar Moore and bass player Wesley Prince joined him in 1937 -- a club owner had suggested to Cole that he form a trio -- and "for seven years," as the front man himself...