Word: orals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to one student involved, Sean P. Nolan, the Review writers stopped the professor to ask his response to an article in last week's issue which criticized his course, "American Music in the Oral Tradition." Although it is unclear what happened next, according to a college spokesman, the confrontation between Cole and Christopher S. Baldwin, editor-in-chief of the Review, two other Review editors and Nolan, turned into a vigorous shouting match...
Then again, it would not be Harvardian to slap a ban on alcohol. After all, which universities do? Brigham Young and Oral Roberts University...
...occasion was the annual convention of National Religious Broadcasters, whose 1,350 members include most of the big organizations except those of Oral Roberts and Robert Schuller. Among the detailed new standards to be required of N.R.B. members: open and audited finances, records of pitches for money in case questions are raised, and governing boards controlled by outsiders rather than by family members and employees...
...seven-month period, Christian Broadcasting Network revenues fell 32.5%, compared with the same time in 1986 -- a drop that partly reflected the loss of its star, Pat Robertson, to presidential politics. Jerry Falwell's income for March through October was $6 million less than projections. Jimmy Swaggart and Oral Roberts refuse to disclose their 1987 results, but the latter's situation is obviously rocky. Broadcast ratings for all these top preachers have also dropped...
Merle Miller, who died shortly after finishing this mammoth book last year, achieved his greatest success with his oral biographies of Presidents Truman and Johnson. He obviously knows a good story, and he admires his hero. Though a number of Eisenhower's fellow commanders in World War II regarded him mainly as an international "board chairman," Miller, himself a combat correspondent for Yank, sees Eisenhower as a consummate politician and diplomat whose mixture of heartiness, cunning and charm helped hold together a fragile military coalition. "He was most complex," Miller writes. "Dwight Eisenhower could and did outsmart, outthink, outmaneuver, outgovern...