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...mayor of Charlotte, N.C., Sue Myrick, the only woman attending the seminar, said she thought the program was ideal. "It seems to be all--inclusive. It's so intensive that it's not a lot of wasted time," she said...
...music. This becomingly naive plot--a black Jazz Singer or a prequel to Dreamgirls--is sturdy enough to support a dozen or so knockout gospel singers, with a spirit that cradles the audience in its communal warmth. Steve Williams leads the Reach Ensemble with dervish vitality; Terry Myrick and Gaillou emerge from that choir to perform prodigies of soul stirring; and Octavia Lambertis (who alternates in the lead role with Desiree Coleman) leapfrogs octaves as she sings gospel or R & B with angelic possession...
Thoughtful Style. Until a heart attack in 1918 sapped his energy, Ives composed almost all of his music in the evenings and on weekends. Weekdays he spent working as a founding partner in the prominent New York insurance agency, Ives & Myrick, where he conceived the idea of "estate planning." Ives took almost as sweeping and humanitarian a view of life insurance as he did of music. He bucked at the notion that coverage was a privilege of the well-to-do, and began issuing more small policies to low-income householders. He also organized the Ives & Myrick training school...
Dead was Jonathan Myrick Daniels, a graduate of Virginia Military Institute ('61), who was studying for the ministry at Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass. After taking part in the Selma-to-Montgomery march, Daniels had gone back to Cambridge to finish the school year, then returned to spend the summer working with the Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity in Selma. His companion was Father Richard F. Morrisroe, assistant pastor of Chicago's Saint Columbanus Church, who had gone earlier this month to Birmingham to attend the Southern Christian Leadership Conference convention...
...Fine Art of Literary Mayhem, by Myrick Land. Carlyle was not feuding with Emerson when he called him "a hoary-headed and toothless baboon," but most of the other literary figures in this book are-and their pejorative language is choice...