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...Joseph, "you couldn't insult each other the way we do. There is no malice, and we get it all out of our system. It's very healthy." All members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the brothers practice 20 hours a week at their old homestead in the Germantown section of the City of Brotherly Love. "When things get too violent," explains Robert, "Mama has to come in from the kitchen to mediate." There is nothing, they say, like Mama's eggs in purgatorio (fried eggs smothered in sautéed tomatoes) and a spot of vino...
Even more archaic than the form of Christian worship is its language. Says the Rev. Robert Raines, pastor of the First Methodist Church of Germantown, Pa.: "Liturgy is an expression in language of our life before God. We have hymns of the four seasons, of the earth, the sky and rural life. But how many hymns are there about God in the factories? In the city slums? We are living on hymns that are an articulation of life in another term...
...typical day, a Commission car picks Mrs. Bunting up at 8:30 a.m. and takes her to one of her two offices-"usually I, or at least my secretary, know the night before which one it will be." One office is at Commission headquarters in Germantown, where the 2000 members of the Washington staff carry out the daily business of the AEC; at the other, in the center of town, she and the other Commissioners confer with members of Congress and coordinate the AEC's activities with those of the rest of the government...
Some of the top private schools in the U.S.-Mount Hermon, Exeter, Andover- have had Negro students for nearly a century. Others, neighborhood schools like Chicago's Francis W. Parker and Germantown (Pa.) Friends, have been admitting Negroes when they move into the neighborhood. For most of the rest, the Negro on campus-if there was one-was the showcase star athlete, the brilliant scholar, the boy from Nigeria, or the son of a prominent clergyman. In twelve years the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students managed to place just 275 students in 46 prep schools. Says...
...sophomore at Philadelphia's Germantown Friends School, where she maintains an A-plus average. She is an accomplished student of piano. She knows what she wants to do-study language at a college like Middlebury, study acting at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and then pursue an acting career...