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...more than he needed for a majority. The convention next elected a seminary board that gave Preus forces a clear majority for the first time. Then after a series of raucous arguments and filibusters ("If we can't act like Christians, let's at least act like gentlemen!" cried one delegate), they voted to recognize a statement by Preus on the Bible as the church's official position on inerrancy and other issues. In their strongest action, by a vote of 574-451, the delegates repudiated the scriptural views of the seminary progressives as "false doctrine...
CHAMBER MUSIC has a bad name. It is traditionally awarded the dubious distinction of being the most unappealing of classical idioms. Its very mention brings to mind visions of bewigged, thoroughly antique gentlemen lulling their audiences to sleep with the sickly whine of their violins. The recent chamber music "revival" is beginning to change all that: more and more chamber ensembles are playing to larger and larger audiences. And so it is that the newly formed Harvard Summer School Chamber Ensemble drew quite a crowd at its first recital at Sanders Theatre July 9. These young artists demonstrated the perpetual...
...with President Nixon and Soviet Communist Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev at the Western White House, the astronauts balked at the orders of NASA doctors and did not wear face masks. "If we catch a cold," joked Conrad, "it would be an honor to catch a cold from you two gentlemen." Brezhnev joined in the banter by asking Conrad to take the two leaders up to Skylab. Nixon cheerfully nodded his assent...
...Gentlemen, I know how disappointed you all are that Badillo didn't win, but there's nothing we can do now. If we want to salvage something out of this campaign we've got to go with Beame quickly. If we become his strongest East Harlem club, maybe we" get some of the patronage because he's going to be the next moyoral...
...Moscow . . . I directed my criticism first and foremost against our own executives . . . for not being able to think big, for still being wary of large-scale developments in economic cooperation, although the Soviet Union is a country rich in resources. But at the same time, I also criticized you gentlemen for also being too cautious...