Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CANTERBURY TALES. This British musical has not thrived on a sea change from London. Four of Geoffrey Chaucer's pilgrims' tales are told without the unity of faith and flesh of the 14th century. The pop-rock score seems incongruous, and the dialogue is all in rhyming couplets; the sensation is rather like spending the evening listening to a metronome...
Suddenly, bouncing out of his chair, comes the star. Evangelist A. A. Allen is dressed in a conservative style tonight: the usual iridescent lavender suit has given way to a blue blazer and grey slacks. But the crowd knows him as "God's Man of Faith and Power," and they also know that something powerful is coming. "We need six strong men to help bring out this stretcher," he shouts. Half a dozen eager volunteers spring into the wings to bring out an ambulance stretcher carrying a groaning black woman. "This woman was brought into the hospital this morning...
...deliberations over the current grading system and the effects it has on our legal education, as well as a flexible and open-minded proposal for change. Though we differ with the late Mr. Justice Frankfurter on what the best educational system would be, we take hope in his faith that the student body is an essential source of energy for developing a better community at Harvard Law School...
...seemed inadequate for the drama of his message. "In all my difficult times," said Ayub, "I have prayed to God for guidance." Then, in a striking echo of Lyndon Johnson's renunciation of the U.S. presidency last year, he declared: "I have decided, in the light of my faith, to announce that I will not be a candidate in the next election. This is my irrevocable decision and there is no possibility of my changing...
Elsewhere, student bodies have already taken a second look at good-faith faculty efforts to make archaic universities more democratic, relevant and effective. On some campuses, skilled administrators have warded off outside interference by firmly dealing with radicals while simultaneously "co-opting" their saner demands...