Word: lehrman
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CONVERTED. Lewis Lehrman, 46, conservative New York business millionaire and 1982 Republican gubernatorial candidate who narrowly lost to Democrat Mario Cuomo; from Reform Judaism, the faith in which he was raised, to Roman Catholicism, whose teachings had increasingly attracted him, especially since a 1983 audience with Pope John Paul II; in a private baptism in New York City. "I can only hope for understanding," said Lehrman, whose wife and five children are Episcopalians and whose older sister is a convert to Mormonism. Some Jewish leaders nonetheless professed disappointment at the loss of a highly visible political role model, especially...
...large colorful tie. Moffo’s Gordon was nervous, weepy and dubiously happy; he also had a touching chemistry with his boyfriend Roger, played by Ryan C. Steinman; the first time they kissed, the audience let out a collective “awww.” Margaret S. Lehrman ’04 played Gordon’s mother with a mixture of hope and frenetic fear—she’s the sort of person who responds to peril by pouring herself into house-cleaning...
...Chicago native, Lehrman has been involved in playwriting throughout her undergraduate years and is now writing a creative thesis in the English concentration. Recently she directed a play for last weekend’s ShortShot and produced last year’s production of Meat in the Adams Pool Theatre...
...James Basker is Ann Whitney Olin Professor of English at Barnard College, Columbia University and President, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. His books include "Tradition in Transition" (1996) and he is curator of the exhibition "Freedom: A History of US" ?in Washington, D. C., at the Decatur House Museum through March...
...regards to her personal ambitions as a writer, Lehrman says, “I’m pretty serious about playwriting as a long-term thing, and I would say two or three of the other playwrights are considering it for a profession as well.” One such playwright is Geordie Broadwater ’04. Broadwater, who wishes to pursue theater as a career, sees playwrighting as “something that everyone interested in theater should at least understand, and the only way to do that is by trying...