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...Luke 11: 33, we are taught, "No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden." Now, y'all know the queen got her start singing in the New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit. People say she left the sacred for the secular, forsook gospel for pop. But, truth is, as her father, the Rev. C.L. Franklin, said, "Truth is, Aretha hasn't ever left the church...
...killed his career with his infamous 1968 racist "rivers of blood" speech opposing nonwhite immigration; in London. The explosive speech put race on the map of British politics, but it also led to Powell's fall from his party's inner sanctum to its back benches. He never forsook his views, asking in 1995, "What's wrong with racism...
...series of focus-group studies for the Beef Industry Council that suggest that when it comes to food, people show an almost infinite capacity for self-delusion. A woman believed she was eating a low-fat diet because she was pouring the fat off her pork chops. Others forsook meat for healthy salads, and then drowned those salads in dressings that contained more fat than the meat they gave...
...THOUGH NANCI GRIFFITH ever forsook her folk roots. She was just worried that others would forget, and that her younger fans might never know. So, with Other Voices, Other Rooms, she pays homage to her heroes, those folk stars who sang to her from her bedside radio when she was a Texas teenager. Some of her honorees even come to the party. Bob Dylan plays harmonica on his almost forgotten Boots of Spanish Leather. John Prine sings harmony on his Speed of the Sound of Loneliness. Arlo Guthrie sings on Tecumseh Valley, by Townes Van Zandt, though...
Harvard often forsook its quick, finesse game against its bigger opponents. The result? Less offense and more penalties--not a productive combination...