Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Good Membry. The man who has elevated so many people to the clergy cannot read or write, although he has a mail-order Ph.D. from the Hollywood University of Los Angeles and an honorary doctorate in metallurgy from a school in Nebraska. Hensley, 57, grew up in the mountains of North Carolina and attended a one-room schoolhouse for a few years where he "done everything but learn to read and write." He hit the road at 13, first encountered religion during the Depression on his way to a youth camp. When he tried to emulate a street-corner preacher...
...moved to Oklahoma, became a young people's leader for the Church of God, soon felt the call to move on to California. There he organized churches of God in Bakersfield, San Jose and Sunnyvale. He also became a relatively successful contractor, prosperous enough to hire people to read to him from the Bible. "My wife and other people would read the verses to me, and I would mem-brize them," he says. "I have a good membry, and sometimes I would stay up all night long just listnin' to the Scriptures. I membrized the Bible from Genesis...
...Russia's Shakespeare does not travel well. Chekhov and Tolstoy are read and loved elsewhere. But most Western readers, confronted by examples of Pushkin's genius, can only nod politely-or, in the case of the worst translations...
Guerrilla troops of Afro members did not converge on Hunt Hall ready to attack Professor Bruening if he refused to change his course topic. About a hundred members did come to the class meeting and one read to statement clarifying Afro's objections to the course. Afro did not protest the original course syllabus only because of ideological differences. The syllabus indicated that the material taught in the course might directly endanger the lives of black people who, because they live in ghettos, could easily become involved in a "riot". The syllabus offered city planners a chance to study...
...support ourselves." They have; advertising has tripled each year of BAD's existence. The regular column was continued in HarBus for the rest of that year, while BAD attracted its own circle of writers. "We offer great possibilities for bright young writers," Lewis said. "Our critics are more widely read than those of any other Boston paper." And "these young critics are often better than the established writers," Mindich added...