Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There's a great deal of energy in neighborhood associations and grassroots," he says...
What we choose to dwell on in the story of Moses says as much about our dreams and fears as it does about Scripture. Eugene Rivers, a Pentecostal minister in Boston's poor Dorchester neighborhood, has depicted Moses as an African revolutionary (Egypt is in Africa, after all) to teach gang members about throwing off the yoke of slavery to drugs. Norman Cohen, provost of New York City's Hebrew Union College, used the prophet's speech defect to come to terms with his own temporary paralysis. Moses is a universal symbol of liberation, law and leadership, sculpted by Michelangelo...
...monologues, every element of the production was representative of "the message." Twilight is produced in the round, and over each of the four sets of bleachers is suspended a drop representing one of the four ethnicities that clashed in the riots. The audience is divided by these pendants into neighborhoods; Black, Korean, Latino, White, "drawing the audience into the conflict," according to Chang. Though each drop is well conceived in its own right, the aesthetics clash fiercely against one another. One in pastels looks like Monet in Watts; another (depicting the poor black neighborhoods) could be mistaken...
...senior majoring in political science, was found dead of multiple stab wounds around 10 p.m. last Friday evening a little over a mile from campus. Last seen at 9:15 p.m. leaving a New Haven church where she was volunteering, Jovin was found in the posh East Rock neighborhood, where several Yale faculty members live, with 17 stab wounds in her head and chest...
...want to be the voice for our neighborhood at the state level," he says. "If you can't have a progressive voice advocating effectively on the issues, then it's a real loss...