Word: methodistic
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Young black militants, some bearing the green, gold and black colors of the outlawed African National Congress, stood shoulder to shoulder with conservatively dressed white matrons inside St. John's Methodist Church in a comfort able all-white neighborhood of Port Elizabeth. Together they sang freedom songs and prayed for a more peaceful future. For black and white South Africans, it was an unusual display of racial harmony. The occasion: the funeral of Molly Blackburn, a leading white antiapartheid activist who was killed in an automobile crash...
...when the Patriots' offense alighted no longer in Bear territory than it took Runner Craig James to complete a 90-yd. touchdown play. "We were still looking for an offensive identity then," says James, 25, who is seldom identified anymore as Eric Dickerson's running partner at Southern Methodist University. In the same way, economical Passer Tony Eason is losing his original handle as one of five quarterbacks drafted three years ago ahead of Dan Marino. Bulwarked by Linebackers Andre Tippett and Don Blackmon, the defense has never had to introduce itself...
Whoever gets the job obviously has a very tough act to follow, in more ways than one. "In the short term, he did wonders for the U.S. economy, but now we are saddled with the bill," says Ravi Batra, an economist at Southern Methodist University and author of a new polemic, Greenspan's Fraud: How Two Decades of His Policies Have Undermined the Global Economy. That's a harsh verdict. But if Alan Greenspan misses the universal acclaim he once enjoyed, he may have only himself to blame. It was Greenspan, after all, who famously warned about the perils...
Monday, April 25. Houghton Library presents “Music of J.S. Bach for Violin, Cello, and Harpsichord.” 8 p.m. Harvard Epworth Methodist Church. $20; students $10. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office...
...used his salesman's savvy, administrator's organizing skills and diplomat's doggedness in a lifelong quest for union among Christians; of complications from diabetes; in Stamford, Conn. He strove to enlist his church in the fight for civil rights, and in 1960 he proposed the unification of the Methodist, Episcopal and Presbyterian churches and the United Church of Christ, arguing that "our separate organizations . . . present a tragically divided church to a tragically divided world." The result was the Consultation on Church Union, which eventually attracted nine denominations to talks that last year succeeded in forging a theological basis...