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...spider or loathesome insect" held over a fire. When Edwards preached, all New England shook in its boots. But the so-called Golden Age of Preaching did not come until the 19th century, with stemwinders like Henry Ward Beecher of Brooklyn and Phillips Brooks of Boston. Clyde Fant of the First Baptist Church in Richardson, Texas, a former homiletics teacher, notes that even then folks found fault with the state of the pulpit. "Where are the good preachers?" asks Fant. "Right where they've always been -few and far between." By most accounts, the 20th century giant was Harry...
Newton-John aside, it is the special effects which do the most damage to an otherwise reasonable show. On the stage, nobody can get away with canned fant asies like the one Frenchy (Didi Conn) has in the malt shop after she has managed to tint her hair pink in beauty school. Having left Rydell High to learn how to shampoo and rinse, Frenchy is having one of those adolescent crises as to whether or not she has made the right decision by leaving school. Needless to say, her problem is hardly assuaged by a host of women with silver...
After explaining the general admissions policy at the Medical School, Fant said that students help the admissions office recruit minorities in the field...
Jonathan J. Ledecky '79, a committee member, said yesterday that Fant's talk helped the committee "gain perspective on undergraduate admissions...
...Fant, minority recruitment and retention coordinator at the Medical School, spoke yesterday before the Committee on Race Relations as part of its ongoing investigation of minority admissions programs and racial relations at Harvard...