Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rest of the globe poised to follow, the American people were faced with a choice between a pair of interventionists, F.D.R. and Wendell Willkie. But both men, dissembling their true convictions, came down the campaign homestretch as quasi-isolationists. Their waffling reflected a national division, not closed until Pearl Harbor...
...Pearl Bailey sang and basketball star Patrick Ewing reminisced, adding a dash of glamour to an event that was beamed by satellite to 37 cities around the country. But the 3,000 other alumni, dignitaries and Catholic clergy who crowded into Washington's cavernous Constitution Hall on Oct. 1 did not come for the stargazing alone. Their purpose was to kick off a yearlong celebration of the 200th anniversary of Georgetown University, the nation's oldest Catholic institution of higher learning. The festivities were a bit early: Georgetown was actually founded in 1789. But that hardly seemed to matter...
Tramping softly through the sandy West Texas soil in her paisley skirt and black leather heels, Pearl Ceasar looks more like the first-grade teacher she used to be than the nun-turned-troublemaker...
...Unless something is done," Sister Pearl tells residents, "more problems are coming. More colonias, more people without water." Her job requires a healthy measure of outrage, something not difficult to acquire in neighborhoods rank with the odor of cesspools and defective septic tanks: in addition to 28,000 people without water in the El Paso area, some 53,000 live without sewer systems. At a crook in the road outside Socorro, the nun pulls the car over and gestures toward a field of white cotton. "The waterlines just stop there. Can you believe it? All these people want...
American Ideas introduces you to Sister Pearl Ceasar, a Roman Catholic nun in El Paso's Rio Grande Valley. Using the precepts developed by the late Saul Alinsky, a Chicago social activist, she is leading a campaign to bring drinking water to impoverished families along the Mexican border...