Word: godly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with high school students, I find that kids won't buy this approach because it just isn't true. Not only does it whitewash thoughts, attitudes and emotions they know are wrong, but it also deprives them of the greatest blessing one can achieve: the realization of God's infinite love for a completely undeserving man. Where there is no sin there can be no forgiveness. Robert P. Beschel Jr. Seattle...
...project in 1946, and after 2½ decades more of planning and preparation, construction began in 1972. Today the project is still only one-quarter complete, leaving a deep gash in the countryside that looks as if it had been capriciously made by the knife of some vengeful god...
Befitting their grownup role in society, children were dressed like miniature adults. And since all good Calvinists looked upon wealth as a sign that they were among God's elect, those clothes were frequently expensive, ornate garments in the latest European styles. In Jeremiah Theus' 1753 formal portrait of Ralph Izard, for instance, the young man wears an immaculate gentleman's outfit, complete with ruffled shirt and silver-trimmed tricorn hat. All of twelve years old, he is painted as lord of the manor, stiffly gesturing toward his property...
Jimmy Cliff's "The Harder They Come," done by Richards on the B side, suffers from a lack of sincerity. As Jagger told Chet Flippo, "It's the attitude." Precisely; that goes for reggae as well as rock. God knows Richards has smoked enough ganja to earn his dreadlocks. But reggae is an indigenous form. Richards grew up in Kent, not Kingston, and his reggae, though technically admirable, is obviously affected. Add to this the suspicion that Richards, who tends to self-pity, is trying to identify his fiasco in Canada with the dilemma of Cliff and other reggae artists...
...classes begin for the new semester, a 37-inch blizzard paralyzes New England. Dean Archie C. Epps III, repeating his famous claim that "Harvard University will close only for an act of God, such as the end of the world," announces the University will remain open...