Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...undoubted insouciance helped him escape blame for the unconventional accounting practices of Oliver North. John F. Kennedy's sense of ironic detachment--common to rich kids since the time of Prince Hal--allowed him to slip out from under the fiasco of the Bay of Pigs. And Franklin Roosevelt's inborn aristocratic bearing led his public to assume during the Depression that he knew what he was doing, even when he didn't, which was often...
Churchill, no doubt, and Roosevelt. But which Roosevelts: Franklin, Eleanor and Teddy? Who was more influential: Stalin or Lenin? Ford or Gates? John Lennon or Mick Jagger? Elvis? Louis Armstrong? Margaret Sanger? Rosa Parks? Marlon Brando? Einstein? Picasso? Mother Teresa? Jackie Robinson? Which ones were truly important, and what will their legacies be for the next millennium? As the debate progresses, we'll keep you updated and look forward to your input. Please let us know what you think...
...faking that he's crazy?" she asks, repeating the question that frames the three-week-old murder and racketeering trial. She looks around cautiously and says, "Let me put it this way. Was Eleanor Roosevelt a lesbian? And the Gigante mother was wonderful. I don't know how she could have a son like that. Of course, another son is a priest, and one who died, I think he might have been homosexual." Not quite the holy trinity. But if true, it has to be some kind of trifecta...
...same but it sounds different." Our Redeemer's Haitians use Haitian music, and the Kingshighway Latino congregation integrates salsa, soul and tango sounds. Sermon styles differ: African Americans expect call and response from the pews and services that last twice as long as a typical white service. Roosevelt Clossum, minister of the African-American congregation at Mount Olive, says that when he went to give a guest sermon before the whites at Kingshighway, he was warned that if he preached more than an hour, a trapdoor would open under...
Sexual behavior as the measure of a man is a faulty gauge; otherwise Richard Nixon would be one of our best Presidents and Franklin Roosevelt one of our worst. One's sexual behavior as a component of character used to count for nothing (President Kennedy's assignations were not covered while he was alive), which was wrong; now it counts for far too much. Gary Hart was no prize, but should his 12 years as a Senator and 39-year marriage be blotted out by his dalliance with Donna Rice...