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Spawned by a violent storm that stretched from Canada to Texas, a pack of killer tornadoes rolled from Wisconsin to New York last Friday, leaving hundreds injured and at least 86 dead, 60 of them in Pennsylvania. The twister knocked out power lines and flattened scores of houses and small factories. In some places, the winds were accompanied by hailstones the size of golf balls. It was the worst tornado disaster since 1974, when a rogue storm ravaged the South and Midwest and took 315 lives...
Stendahl, who was ordained in the Church of Sweden, later became a member of the Lutheran Church in America He has worked in the Student Christian movement, and as a scholar has shown special concern for the impact of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls on New Testament scholarship. He is also renowned for his studies of the Gospel of St. Matthew...
That translates, in the social arena, into gregariousness. "He likes crowds," roommate, adding, in a dead-on imitation drink, let's party, let's be loud and obnoxious...
...fourth book Robert Ward has attempted to update a half-forgotten relic of the '30s: the proletarian novel, with its idealized workers and smokestack suburbs. Ward's contemporary laborers are not moved by Woody Guthrie's lyrics; they rock to Mick Jagger and Aretha Franklin. They are not Dead End slum dwellers; they are Viet Nam vets and night-school dropouts. Their collars may be blue, but their lives run in the black: sheepskin jackets and vacations at the beach...
...sculpture -- blue-collar minimalism, a pugnacious combination of muteness with extreme manipulations of space. Nobody could call his work accessible, but there is no denying his influence on other artists. To take only one example, the black granite notch of Maya Ying Lin's monument to the Viet Nam dead in Washington, D.C., the most intensely moving war memorial in America, is basically a spin-off from Serra's land sculptures...