Word: mordecai
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...University of Paris classroom an American Negro attending a meeting of religious leaders sat reading and rereading a cable that had just come from the U.S. The year was 1926, and for Mordecai Johnson, 36, the news that he had been elected president of Howard University in Washington, D.C. should have been cause for celebration. But, recalls Johnson, it was not: "My happiness on my trip was destroyed...
...Mordecai Gorelik's sets are cleanly pictorial, and Feder's lighting is inspired...
...sets by Mordecai Gorelik are simple and functional, and they look as though they might occur to anyone who started to design a set for this production. If they did, we would have more top-notch designers like Gorelik. He characterizes the competent excellence of this rather fascinating play...
...Mordecai Fowler Ham, a fiery-eyed, long-fingered Kentucky revivalist, began to blaze away at Charlotte from a tabernacle on the edge of town. Billy Frank Graham somehow sensed that he was a sitting duck for Mordecai Ham, and carefully stayed away. Finally, at his mother's urging, Billy went to the tabernacle with his good friend. Grady Wilson. For a week the two boys quailed under the gimlet gaze of Mordecai. who seemed to be searching out their most secret sins. Then they joined the choir so they could stand behind him, but there was no hiding place...
...gave $182,000 to the Institute of Pacific Relations, which in 1952 was denounced by the McCarran Committee as an "instrument of Communist policy." It also paid out about $15,000 in small sums to such leftists as Professor Frederick Schuman of Williams College, and Economist Mordecai Ezekiel, listed by the House Un-American Activities Committee as a member of the American League for Peace and Democracy and of the Southern Conference on Human Welfare. All in all, said the endowment's President Joseph E. Johnson, the endowment had spent something more than $246,000 on people and organizations...