Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1970s, when a group of Houston youths were taught such modern approaches to the Bible at Baptist Baylor University in Waco, Texas, they returned home and reported the information to Paul Pressler, their former Sunday school teacher. Pressler, a state appeals court judge, who is a cum laude Princeton alumnus and former state legislator, subsequently urged fellow conservatives to work toward electing a series of tough S.B.C. presidents. His notion: the conservative presidents would make appointments that would turn around the schools and the huge S.B.C. publishing house. Criswell's associate pastor, Paige Patterson, became Pressler's partner...
...Sparrow in the last years of his life. His reissued novels, Ask the Dust and Dreams from Bunker Hill, sold more than 10,000 copies each. Martin's current favorite is the late Wyndham Lewis, a novelist and critic whose work, & said T.S. Eliot, combined "the thought of the modern and the energy of the cave man." Lewis also dabbled in art. To Poet Edith Sitwell, his pictures seemed "to have been painted by a mailed fist in a cotton glove...
George Crumb: A Haunted Landscape; William Schuman: Three Colloquies for Horn and Orchestra. (New York Philharmonic, Arthur Weisberg, conductor (of the Crumb); Zubin Mehta, conductor (Schuman), with Philip Myers, horn; New World Records.) Blessed with one of the most remarkable ears for sonority of any modern composer, Crumb has long had a fascination with the otherworldly. In such works as Songs, Drones and Refrains of Death, the two piano suites of Makrokosmos and the string quartet Black Angels, he combines a distinctive, flamboyant sense of instrumental color with a darkling imagination that results in some chillingly effective music. A Haunted...
Like most modern metropolises, Boston sports several movie houses that show mainstream moneymakers like Rambo or Perfect. The seven Sack Cinema theaters are the best places to find new films that are popular across the nation. But, unless you feel the urge to ride the subway, there's no reason why you should have to leave Cambridge for good flicks. The Square has a good assortment of mainstream popular, classic, and foreign films to keep you entertained without ever having to venture into Boston...
While they may not be akin to regular Harvard courses (except maybe Oscar Handlin's History 1958, which describes the role of TV in modern American life), courses like VISU S-196: The Horror Film, and PSYC S-1470: Psychopathology, seem to be courses perfect for attending on lazy summer afternoons. An interesting and unusual topic is what a summer school course should be all about...