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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from black literature. Such an African-American liturgy with an all-black priesthood, Stallings believes, might be patterned after the Eastern rites within the Catholic Church. He seeks to combine "Baptist practices with the beauty and tradition of the Catholic faith." As a young Catholic in North Carolina, Stallings often attended an enthusiastic black Baptist church with his grandmother. Says he: "The church is failing to bind together the church with the needs and aspirations of African Americans...
Public mores may have changed over the past three decades, but the press still finds itself trapped by the rituals that govern its coverage of scabrous gossip. Today the journalistic rules of righteous rumormongering have been liberalized, even though the results in the form of tarnished reputations often remain all too familiar. Leading newspapers and the television networks are less likely to permit the wire services to do their dirty work for them. Instead, the new, more permissive approach allows them to write and broadcast artfully crafted stories about the rumors themselves, thereby spreading calumny while piously decrying...
...male stripper club over in New York City. Says the newlywed: "We rented a limousine. We partied all the way in and all the way back." They also brought back pictures of the goings-on to show the Pennington class. Mattia and her new friends have remained close; they often meet for dinner...
...this decade, American society is jaded. We have seen too many dead soldiers, too many protests, too many presidential scandals. The average citizen has heard too often that someone else is working harder, getting less and therefore deserves more...
...once listed in a magazine as the 20th most powerful American outside of government, is a leading advocate for higher education in the country and often clashed with former Secretary of Education William Bennett...