Word: orale
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Elman started telling his story in 1983 for a Columbia University oral history project, and his disclosures were published in February's Harvard Law Review, from where they jumped last week to the front page of the New York Times. In his interview, Elman recalls that for years Frankfurter telephoned him almost every Sunday night at home. In some of their talks in 1952, the judge discussed the fact that several Justices feared that if they ordered immediate school integration, the result would be virtual warfare across the South. Frankfurter wanted "more than anything else" for the court to decide...
Paul Johnson, a white male who had worked for the agency for 13 years, also applied. He and Joyce were among the seven applicants who scored above 70 on the oral exam and were considered qualified. Joyce scored 73, Johnson 75. The local supervisor picked Johnson, but the county's affirmative-action coordinator recommended Joyce. When she got the job, Johnson got a lawyer. Like Allen Bakke and Brian Weber and countless other white males since the advent of affirmative-action programs some 20 years ago, Johnson claimed he was a victim of reverse discrimination...
...pure chance, the Bakker scandal -- involving sex, greed and ministerial rivalries -- has coincided with a controversy swirling about another televangelist. The Rev. Oral Roberts, operator of a TV ministry, university and medical center in Tulsa, had broadcast that God would "call Oral Roberts home" unless by March 31 believers came up with $4.5 million for missionary work. Many Christians, including some Roberts followers, were scandalized by what they perceived to be implicit spiritual blackmail. The Bakker-Roberts furor raised questions about the future of TV evangelism, a fast-growing, klieg-lighted mode of Christian proselytizing -- and fund raising. Counting radio...
...Oral Roberts was fasting in his Tulsa Prayer Tower, a 200-ft.-tall glass- and-steel spire on the Oral Roberts University campus, and still awaiting this week's life-threatening deadline, despite a surprise stay of execution -- a gift of $1.3 million from Jerry Collins, a short, gruff dog-track owner from Sarasota, Fla. ("It's very seldom I ever go to church," said the philanthropic Collins. "I help them all.") Roberts, feeling perkier after the donation, proclaimed Bakker a "prophet of God," who had been victimized by an "unholy trio of forces," presumably referring to Swaggart, the Assemblies...
...several anthologies. He has been hailed as a dominant voice in a new era of the Afro-American tradition. Literary critics describe him as the man who has overcome the conventions that limited Afro-American literature, as one who has successfully combined seemingly unrelated elements of Black written and oral expression to redefine the possibilities of the novel as a literary form...