Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sang songs with the band and congratulated every white jersey I could find. It was a wild scene of music, grass, wind, love, cold, trumbones, joy, and the littlest sousaphone player turned drum major...
...didn't order the new grass," said Cozza. "And the soil is dry, well, as a bone...
...scholarships are administered by the New England Board of Higher Education, a non-profit regional agency whose purpose is to act as liaison between higher education, business, and government. The scholarship program "is a grass-roots initiative enabling New England colleges to support Black South African students," said Ellen Anderson, a spokesman for the board...
Activists like Skolrood believe that the Religious Right, far from fizzling, will now be "more sophisticated and more encompassing." There are compelling signs of a quieter political competence. Sociologist Nancy Ammerman of Emory University points to "grass-roots organizations all over the place putting the conservative agenda in place -- locally, not nationally. Now they walk through the halls of capitols and do horse trading." In a parallel development, Fundamentalists have been steadily consolidating control of the nation's largest Protestant denomination, the 14.6 million-member Southern Baptist Convention. One indicator of their impact was last month's resignation...
Robertson's ascendancy and the Religious Right's new grass-roots savvy only partly answer the question of where the movement will go, however. The end of the Falwell era should inspire a sweeping re-examination of the way conservative Christians separate church and state. As it happens, one vision is already being forcefully argued by Charles Colson, the Watergate felon turned prison evangelist, in his articulate new book Kingdoms in Conflict (Morrow/Zondervan; $15.95). Colson's criticisms of the Religious Right are especially noteworthy, coming as they do from a biblically conservative Southern Baptist who joins with the movement...