Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...critic's review of Martin Scorcese's new film, Taxi Driver, so galvanized us that we rushed out toward the Cheri II to see it. Unfortunately our taxi driver had a flat (which we fixed) and then another. Having heard about DeNiro's violent tendencies in the movie, we paid his real-life counterpart anyway. By all means, go, but take the subway...
...black legislators had a party in their part of town, they sent a routine invitation to the Governor. Much to their surprise, he showed up, and word spread quickly that the Governor was eating chitlins with the brothers. In the state capitol in 1974, Carter placed a portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. on a wall amid pictures of other Georgia notables, while an integrated audience sang We Shall Overcome. Many blacks who did not vote for Carter swung over to his support. Now his presidential drive is endorsed by men as disparate as Martin Luther King Sr. and Henry...
Bailey's next expert was Dr. Martin Orne, 48, a psychiatrist at the University of Pennsylvania and a specialist in detecting when a subject is trying to deceive his questioners. Speaking with a slight Viennese accent, Orne said that he had actually tried to lead Patty into giving inaccurate answers to please him. Orne's considered opinion: "Miss Hearst simply did not lie." This flat statement evoked a strenuous objection from Bancroft and led Judge Carter to issue his caution to the jurors that they would have to make up their own minds on that basic issue...
...Arthur Mitchell was performing with New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center, the first black principal dancer in an American company. His fame grew as he partnered all of Balanchine's great ballerinas, from Maria Tallchief to Suzanne Farrell. Then in April 1968, after the shock of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, he decided that it was time to do something for black people. His first move was to approach the eminent American dance teacher Karel Shook, then ballet master of the Netherlands National Ballet...
...critical of bland "university theology" that has no roots in religious communities. Lindbeck's Yale boss, Dean Colin Williams, and Vanderbilt's Dean Sallie TeSelle both claim that their schools are striving to preserve various traditions and train church leaders. As for Chicago's Associate Dean Martin Marty, he says his school has little interest in training ministers and thinks his friend Lindbeck "is a little too mournful about the shattering of the stained-glass windows of the suburban churches...