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...some ways the Mormon church is a potpourri of contradictions. As a lay church it is democratic and has strains of communalism. The tasks of each branch are spread among all members, and anyone can speak in relief society, priesthood, Sunday school and sacrament meetings. Members are encouraged to work out their individual relationship to God and to follow their revelations. The church's extensive welfare programs--financed by its awesome tithings--allow "anyone in need to get it immediately," according to Peterson...
TODAY, NEW YORK'S Hester Street offers up an ethnic potpourri. One end of the street is Italian, another is Puerto Rican, and a recent New York Times article reports that "Hester Street's tomorrow, which has already begun today, is clearly Chinese-American." Joan Micklin Silver's film by the same name is set at the turn of the century, a time when the street was a major center of activity in New York's Jewish ghetto, and the men who shuffled down its sidewalks were mumbling Yiddish under their beards...
Thad Jones and Mel Lewis: Potpourri (Philadelphia International Records; $6.98). Eighteen jazz all-stars make up one of the last of the big bands. Many jazz connoisseurs also consider it the best. In nine years of one-night stands since its founding by Trumpeter Jones and Drummer Lewis, J. & L. has perfected a loose, flexible sound. The title refers to the multiracial, three-generation profile of the personnel - Trombonist Cliff Heather is 70, Trumpeter Jon Faddis is 21 - as well as to the program...
Even in warmer parts of the South and California-where knee socks are often more of an accessory than a necessity-sales are strong. "People aren't buying them because they're freezing," says Rochelle Toas, a salesclerk at Los Angeles' Potpourri boutique. "They are buying them because they're cute." In Atlanta, Donald Campbell, regional manager of the six Casual Corner shops in the area, complains that the peppy new socks "don't last on the floor more than a few days...
Apart from the evidence it provides about the President's critical conversations, the edited transcript furnishes a potpourri of marginalia that limn the style and character of the Nixon White House. A representative sampler...