Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...almost positive I want to be a neurosurgeon," Sample says, and he has the grades to get into a top-flight medical school. But he will be spending next year playing piano in a Gospel music studio in Detroit, not studying for the MCAT. And while most seniors leave behind a few close friends when they take on a career, Sample parts from "probably 40 or 50" friends just among the sophomores in Quincy House...
Resume items on seniors are easy to come by. Home: Southwest Chicago, Illinois. Academics: Biochemistry, pre-med. Social Life: Active. Activity: Jazz and Gospel piano player. Job: Manager at Harvard Student Agencies (HSA). None of these things says much about a person...
Activity: Madison plays the piano, jazz and Gospel, beautifully. "Music was like talking to myself," he says. When he was 10 he had lessons in classical music for 10 months and made progress so fast that in less than a year he found himself playing in a competition for people with four or five years of experience. He said he entered the competition because he wanted to compete with his friend Carl who had been playing for several years. "Madison Sample was cocky at that stage," he admits...
...incredible, but supportive mail has poured in to the Palm Springs retreat. Some Pentecostals think Bakker could try to set up a clone of Heritage USA in California, or an independent Charismatic congregation somewhere. Indeed, one Chattanooga, Tenn., TV station has already offered to help Bakker launch a new gospel show. Says the Rev. Tommy Barnett, of the flourishing (15,000-member) Phoenix First Assembly of God: "I know the man has his drive and dreams, and you just don't hold a man like that back...
Like a missionary spreading the gospel, the Soviet leader wasted no opportunity to talk up his policies. "If we are silent about certain shortcomings, then they inevitably grow," he warned. "Half-truth is worse than a lie." Gorbachev, 56, also spoke glowingly of Soviet attempts to bring "democracy closer to man," words that must have chilled the autocratic Ceausescu and his imperious wife Elena, 68, both of whose birthdays are national holidays. Beyond some pointed jabs at Rumania's dismal economic performance, Gorbachev avoided specific charges against the Ceausescu regime. The implicit warning, however, was clear: a recalcitrant Rumania would...