Word: marylander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years later he was playing Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell tunes at a campus coffeehouse near the University of Maryland. A lot of Byrne's high school classmates were going into the military, but, Celia says, "David wanted to go to art school. Teachers and guidance counselors tried to talk him out of it. My family was supportive though. They just wanted us to be happy...
...school liberated Byrne. He logged time at two of them, the Maryland Institute's College of Art and the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. He was formally enrolled at R.I.S.D. for just two semesters but subsequently spent one year hanging out and letting his fantasies roam wild. "He was doing conceptual art," Tina Weymouth remembers. "David has never been one for draftsmanship." Byrne earned some money working the grill at a hot dog stand but largely devoted himself to experimental extravagance. At Maryland he formed a duo called Bizadi with an accordion-playing friend, and would sometimes perform...
...MARYLAND by Robert Bauman...
After Representative Robert Bauman, a Maryland Republican, was arrested in 1980 on charges of soliciting sex from a teenage male prostitute, his world fell apart. He lost his seat in Congress. His marriage broke up. His faith, Roman Catholicism, demanded a repentance that he did not feel. And his conservative colleagues disowned him while his former enemies on the left showed compassion. This realization, which inspired a newfound fervor for civil rights, forms the centerpiece of his disorganized but surprisingly poignant autobiography. Bauman's dilemma was that being gay was incompatible with political life. So he wed and started...
Conservative Moral Theologian Germain Grisez of Mount St. Mary's College in Maryland sees John Paul's cleanup as one of historic proportions, comparing it with Pope Pius X's effort early in the century to crush the modernist movement. That dispute, says Grisez, "was basically a much smaller thing than what's happening now." Similarly underscoring the significance of the situation, the Vatican's official spokesman, Joaquin Navarro-Valls, stated last week that "this phenomenon of dissent, in the U.S. and elsewhere, touches the very nature of the church. The real question is no longer abortion, or even moral...