Word: preacher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since he took over the National Catholic Register (circ. 90,000). Francis was chosen for the job by Schick Millionaire Patrick Frawley Jr., who bought the then-progressive paper at the urging of conservative Jesuit Gadfly Daniel Lyons to give it a more traditional tone. A onetime Methodist lay preacher who became a Catholic in 1945, Francis has socially liberal credentials as a longtime union supporter and early civil rights advocate...
...cast is laden with all sorts of luminaries (Harry Belafonte, Calvin Lockhart, Richard Pryor, Rosalind Cash) and among them there are a couple of nice but wide comic turns: Roscoe Lee Browne as an enjoyably fulsome and hypocritical politician, and Flip Wilson as a preacher who exhorts his congregation, "We need more romance and less hot pants." Cosby is affably anxious, but Poitier's idea of comic acting is to bulge his eyes out, as if doing a Mantan Moreland impression. It is said of some movies that they look like photographed stage plays. Uptown Saturday Night looks like...
...certain grace seems to touch the life of the diminutive (5 ft. 4 in.) Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, Dom Helder Pessoa Cãmara. Better known to the world simply as "Dom Helder," Brazil's famed voice of the poor and preacher of nonviolent revolution is a persistent nettle in the breeches of his country's military regime. At least eight of Dom Helder's associates have been arrested and tortured. He has been castigated as a "Fidel Castro in cassock" and disdainfully dubbed "the Red bishop." Lately he has been so judiciously ignored by Brazil...
...sense of wellbeing. It is a feeling of being a useful, functioning part of society-not indispensable perhaps, but not easily dispensed with either. "Middle class means you can live above the survival level and have some whims as well as needs," says the Rev. William Lawson, a Baptist preacher in Houston. For Mary Davis, a Chicago urban planner, being middle class means "going to a good school, being clean and taking a bath." Evelyn Thompson, a reporter for KOOL-TV in Phoenix, recalling the well-done cuts of cheap pork that poor blacks consume, observes: "You know a black...
...Madison Square Garden. Acting as if it were news to them, the mostly white crowd -who had paid $6.50 to $8.50 a ticket to watch Rock Star Sly Stone, 30, marry Actress Kathy Silva, the mother of his nine-month-old child-whistled and hooted when the preacher launched into the Lord's Prayer. The nuptials were billed as a "golden affair." Halston, the designer of the costumes, explained: "Sly is such a golden...