Word: reverend
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...lifelong Methodist and former Sunday-school teacher faces the challenge of convincing Americans her faith is genuine. That's in part why she's given Strider a senior role, unusual for a Democratic campaign. "I'm not stuck in some corner, just to be pulled out when someone named Reverend calls," he says, in a pointed reference to John Kerry's 2004 campaign. "Religion is fully integrated, from the candidate on down...
After calling the Rutgers women’s basketball team “nappy-headed hos,” shock jock Don Imus quickly found himself embroiled in scandal. Despite Imus’ profuse apology, Reverend Al Sharpton didn’t seem keen on hearing any explanation. Appearing on everything from Larry King Live to Fox News, Sharpton mounted his crusade against Imus’ language. Suddenly, just as the nation was trying to digest and debate the event, we were bombarded by a din of nonsense from a man who enjoys the sound of his own voice...
...Obama clearly expressed how his post-racial consciousness manifests itself politically in his now-famous 2004 convention speech, when he said, “there is no black America and white America, there is only the United States of America.” Reverend Al might see it differently...
...unlock synergistic power—see 2004’s “Sung Tongs” openers “Leaf House” and “To Catch a Rabbit” for proof—but this album’s “For Reverend Green” and “Fireworks” unlock the band themselves. Avey Tare’s voice dominates here, fluctuating between crooning and yelping as all the vulnerability and melancholy he faced out in the desert pours out in catharsis. It?...
...really be “put to rest” at Harvard, for it is in our institutional DNA and, with very few exceptions, all of our presidents before 1869 were clergymen. Our senior governing board, the Overseers, still has as one of its honorifics, “The Reverend,” and our most solemn assemblies are usually opened and closed with prayer. When I teach my Harvard history course, many are surprised by the large role that religion played in the foundation of the University, and shocked to learn that Henry Dunster, our first president, was eased...