Word: reunion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Class of 1927, which has slightly more than 500 members remaining, has already contributed over $1 million in cash, the largest gift a 50th reunion class has ever donated, Clifton said...
...rummage through attics, basements and closets for illuminating family letters and other memorabilia. "It's a simple thing," says Haley. "But the existence of a written history gives the family something it never had before. There is an almost miraculous effect once it exists." Finally, Haley urges, "have family reunions. There is something magic about the common sense of a blood bond. It's not less magic for black, white, brown or polka dot. The reunion gives a sense that the family cares about itself and is proud of itself. And there is the assumption that you, the family member...
Writing Cook. Because Roots is a black family reunion of sorts, Haley sees some distinct differences in why whites and blacks are so attracted by it. Discounting speculation that his work would unleash black rage, Haley says, "I've not heard one murmur of radicalization from blacks. I have heard ebullience and happiness that the story has been told. The blacks who are buying books are not buying them to go out and fight someone, but because they want to know who they are. Roots is all of our stories. It's the same for me or any black...
Even if both communions move that far toward reunion, problems will remain. The Venice statement acknowledges that Anglicans have great difficulties with the doctrine of papal infallibility and dogmas about Mary. Anglicans also fear that the Pope's universal jurisdiction over church affairs is open to "illegitimate or uncontrolled use"; the statement, however, also notes that Catholicism is trying to overcome the "juridical outlook" of the past. It avoids such specific obstacles to union as the Catholic ban on contraception or the recent decision by Anglicans in some countries to ordain women priests...
...knowing whether they would succeed, Gilmore was finding it hard to play it cool. "He's like a caged animal," said a prison official. "He's very nervous -more nervous about someone trying to stop the execution than the date coming closer." For a time, a family reunion with his two brothers and an aunt and uncle put Gilmore in a better mood, though he was disappointed that his mother, Bessie Gilmore, was ill and could not make the trip. "The family should be together on an occasion like this," said his uncle, Vern Damico...