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Later the women will learn how to pound their fists on their husbands' chests in childlike rage. "Men love it," says the movement's founder and guru, Helen B. Andelin, 55. A devout Mormon, she developed her methods years ago when she felt her own marriage going sour. Now, after eight children and 32 years of marriage, her husband adores her, she reports, and even helps out at the Fascinating Womanhood Foundation in Santa Barbara, Calif. Eleven thousand teachers have been trained to teach feminine arts and craftiness the Andelin way in schools and churches across the country...
Died. Norman Treigle, 47, New York City Opera's deeply resonant bass since 1953; of gastrointestinal bleeding; in New Orleans. A devout Baptist, Treigle once sang gospel songs with a touring evangelist known as "the Chaplain of Bourbon Street"; his first lead role at City Opera, a guilt-haunted, Bible-pounding minister in Carlisle Floyd's Susannah, was based on those early experiences. Treigle's gaunt face and spidery figure virtually typecast him for such roles as Mephistopheles in Boito's and Gounod's versions of the Faust legend, and as the four villains...
Harold Berman, Story Professor of Law, attended the lunch and said the clergymen were all obviously "devout believers...
...this German Protestant theologian offered no vision of an easily won future: behind the hope of Christ's Resurrection, he insisted, lay the dark courage of the Crucifixion. Now Moltmann takes a long, measured look at the God who became man and an outlaw, "a scandal to the devout and a disturber of the peace in the eyes of the mighty." Learnedly and often ardently written, The Crucified God is an intellectual delight: Moltmann ranges over history, literature and philosophy to explore the fundamental alienation of the Cross, in which God paradoxically "takes upon himself the eternal death...
Widely known as a towering figure in pro basketball and a devout convert to the Islamic faith, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is less famous as an amateur musician. The son of a trombonist, the 7-ft. 2-in. Milwaukee Bucks center is a longtime jazz devotee who plays the piano, drums and reeds for relaxation...