Word: famous
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...Meeting-House itself figured significantly in Negro history. From the middle of the nineteenth century on, it was an active center of abolitionism; from its pulpit spoke such famous Negroes as Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman, and such eminent whites as William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips. The building was also, from 1876 to 1936, the home of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, which has since moved to Warren Street in Roxbury...
...Most famous of his works was his book-length 1925 study of Jesus Christ, The Man Nobody Knows. Upset that Sunday school teachers often reduced Jesus to a "sissified Mary's little lamb," Barton set out to prove that, in truth, he was a real get-up-and-go type. "He was the most popular dinner guest in Jerusalem," wrote Barton. "A failure! He picked twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organization that conquered the world." The Man topped the bestseller list for two years, inspired Barton to produce He Upset...
...helps his own performances in the Broadway musical Illy a Darling. In Detroit, the 75 tent members draw on a collection of 35 Laurel and Hardy films owned by Eric Stroh, of the Stroh beer dynasty; annually, the Detroit tent awards a "Fine Mess" trophy (a phrase from a famous Hardy line)-a $15 black derby-to the man or men who have "contributed a fine mess to Detroit." (Current holders: the local weathermen.) The Minneapolis tent shelters 150 fans, including Harry Heltzer, president of the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co.; members wear derbies to the meetings and hoot...
...work in which Shure's intellectual approach worked the least was Chopin's Sonata in b flat minor, Op. 35, the one that contains the famous Marche funebre. One of the composer' masterpieces, it dates from that period of his life when he was still in the first heat of his love affair with George Sand. As well-made as it is, the work pouring of melody that is sapped of life by an attempt to bring out every element of compositional logic. After all, this music is French. As in the Schubert, Shure was at times heavy-handed, especially...
...originated with Gar Alperovitz, a fellow of the Kennedy Institute of Politics who resigned his State Department post last year in protest against the war. Martin Luther King, who visited Cambridge to lend his prestige to the launching of the project, contributed the name which is reminiscent of the famous Civil Rights Summer...