Word: reverend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movement has accomplished a great deal, I think. Among other achievements, it has enabled more black people to attend college than ever before and it has created a political framework allowing two black men, a reverend and a General, to run (or consider running) for president. But it really appears as if the movement has amounted to nothing because it has not destroyed the critical perceptions that necessitated its existence...
...many as 1,000 people are expected to attend a special service at Memorial Church this Sunday afternoon in honor of the Reverend Peter J. Gomes' 25 years at the University...
...Under Reverend Gomes, Memorial Church has become more of an intellectual center within the University," Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III said in a telephone interview yesterday. "It's a place where you'd expect to hear great preaching but also serious theological discussions. [This weekend] we hope both are represented...
...acting, too, helps to disguise the plot Demi Moore plays her part with a determination and recklessness that would have done Hester Prynne proud. Gary Oldman would cut a more convincing figure as her passionate and inspirational lover, the Reverend Dimmesdale, if he weren't undercut by the melodramatic sermonizng thrust upon him by the script. And Robert Duvall steals the show as Demi's estranged pay chopathic husband, who has gone so native that the natives themselves decide they're scared...
...Reverend Peter J. Gomes waited five minutes for the 11 a.m. bells of Memorial Church to quiet before opening a speech laden with biblical references...