Word: samuel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chibald Cox '34, Samuel Williston Professor of Law and former U.S. Solicitor General, feels that there is "a relatively slim chance that the law will receive a full hearing by the court." He went on to say that it is much more likely that Massachusetts' complaint will be dismissed...
Atlanta's Samuel W. Williams is a minister in the Progressive National Baptist Convention, which split from Joseph Jackson's group. He regards Jackson as a man with "no constituency. The silent majority is very silent." His own position, Williams feels, is within the black mainstream, trying to achieve social change while still trying to cooperate with the white community. Williams, in his 50s, is acting academic dean of Morehouse College in Atlanta, sole pastor of the 650-member Friendship Baptist Church, and chairman of Atlanta's Human Relations Commission...
...most black churchmen, as to Samuel Williams, the future is an open and agonizing question. Some, like Joseph Jackson, find their answers by retreating to solutions of the past. Others try different paths. Pastor Albert B. Cleage Jr. of Detroit's Shrine of the Black Madonna, who preaches that Jesus was literally black, has announced that he is founding a "Black Christian Nationalist Movement" that will have its first "national convention" in Detroit this week. Cleage, who ran unsuccessfully for the presidency of the National Council of Churches last December, also expects to attract black Jews,* sunni Muslims...
...Koster became head of the Military Academy. One gray day last week he stood on the stone balcony in the academy mess hall. He bore himself impeccably-back straight, jaw firm, every graying hair in place. Below him waited the 3,700-man Corps of Cadets, including his son, Samuel W. Koster Jr. General Koster told them that "action has been initiated against me" arising from his Viet Nam tour and that he was resigning as superintendent "to separate the academy and you of the corps from the continuing flow" of adverse publicity...
...visitor to O'Rourke's pub in Chicago's Old Town had no trouble recognizing most of the poster-size photographs on the walls: James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Brendan Behan, Sean O'Casey, George Bernard Shaw. But whose was the mildly cherubic visage staring out of the sixth photo? "Oh," said the barkeep without elaboration, "that's Roger . . . you know, Roger Ebert...