Word: ser
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Pollard delivers three sermons a week, teaches a Bible class for some 500 prominent laymen every Tuesday, and prepares both a TV and a radio program weekly. "But if ser mons are not drawn directly from the Bible," he says firmly, they're "just speechmaking." With all the competing forms of commercial art and entertainment today, Pollard figures, the continuing demand for preaching "can't be explained in any other terms than that God is using...
Milton Eisenhower, diplomat and scholar, collected his wisdom from ser vice with eight Presidents. He wrote messages for Calvin Coolidge, was a global troubleshooter for Roosevelt and worked a bit for John Kennedy, long enough so that he came to believe J.F.K. would have been a great President if he had lived...
...which can be ascribed to the specificity of Afro-American culture and which seem to bring out further the richness of Afro-American literature and thereby its enrichment of American literature. I refer to the brilliant essay writing of James Baldwin which seems to have emanated out of the ser-monesque-rapping of the Afro-American religious experience; the peculiar from of the dialect which Dunbar introduced into his works; and the particular integration of the folkloric tradition which Chestnutt used so well in his "Conjure" tales. One finds a very special use of the African elegy in the works...
...legal aid programs) and the rich (who can afford to pay for private service). The 1976 Tax Reform Act excluded from an employee's taxable income both employer contributions to a group legal plan and the value of legal services. Under the terms of the act, the Internal Revenue Ser vice this spring gave a green light to the largest venture yet: a United Auto Workers group legal plan that will eventually cover 150,000 Chrysler employees and retirees...
There are two compelling reasons why volunteer work is, as California Governor Jerry Brown has said, "a necessity for a civilized society." First, as is becoming increasingly clear, there is and ought to be a finite limit to the ser vices that government can provide. California's Proposition 13 has proved that taxpayers are willing to cut services even cruelly and self-destructively to reduce their tax loads. If many necessary services are to be provided, volunteers must do the work-particularly in child care centers, nursing homes, libraries and alcohol abuse programs. One of the most persuasive practical...