Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shadows of Christmas Eve stretch across the cobblestone court yard of the St. Thomas school in Leipzig. Along the first floor, where the choirmaster lives, the windows glow with candlelight. A young Hausfrau, surrounded by half a dozen children and pregnant with another, bustles through the cluttered rooms preparing dinner. Her husband is busy copying the parts of his latest cantata, which he must soon rehearse with his musicians and singers for next morning's service, at the church across the courtyard...
...Faith, now dominated by conservatives, be revamped to reflect a wider spectrum of theological opinion. The statement also declared that no theologian accused of error should be heard in secret, and that if a hearing is necessary, the case should be decided by a board of experts, half of them chosen by the defendant himself...
...major problem, as Henderson sees it, is the lingering timidity of his trustees, half of whom are white, and he says he solves it by acting first and telling the board about it later. "I'm the sort of guy who doesn't like to ask people whether I can do something or not. I like to move," he says. Henderson is not so cavalier with the students, the most militant of whom see his finesse with foundations as evidence of Uncle Tomism. Indeed, when students recently challenged the school's rules, he quickly agreed to eliminate...
...alone. Students must be taught pride, he admits, but they must also be taught the tools with which to compete. "Math is math," he says. "It's not black math." Fervently preaching involvement with the community, Francis is himself the foremost exemplar sitting on more than half a dozen local committees and com missions. He even owns a small piece of the National Football League's New Orleans Saints...
...since the Korean War year of 1951. During October, the latest month for which statistics have been compiled, consumer prices rose at a frantic 7.2% annual rate. While the nation's output of goods and services climbed 8.7% to a record of $860 billion for the year, almost half of that was accounted for by price increases. Just over half represented "real growth...