Word: turn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...farms to the Harlem neighborhoods, where he spent his youth and later tried his hand at professional songwriting. As a Negro, Bearden insists that there is no particular significance in the fact that so many of his subjects have been Negroes. "My subject is people. They just happen to turn out to be Negro," he says. Still, he pictures them with such special feeling and skill that their portraits have been shown in galleries across the U.S. and Europe; they are in the collections of Princeton University, Atlanta University, Buffalo's Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Brooklyn Museum...
FROM the outset of the Viet Nam peace talks, the formal meetings at Paris' Hotel Majestic have been counterpointed by private sessions between the U.S. and North Vietnamese delegates. These in turn have apparently influenced Hanoi's conduct of the war. In nearly six months since the talks started, there have been three distinct phases before the present hopeful...
IRONICALLY, America was the first nation to proclaim officially that rulers may govern only with the people's consent. In Britain, Denmark, Italy and West Germany, more than 75% of all eligible voters consistently turn out for national elections. In this century, U.S. voter participation has gone from a low of 44.2% in 1920 to a high of only...
...through class instruction. Yet music schools and colleges have for years avoided class piano lessons as much as possible. If each student in the room has a piano, the result is cacophony; if there is only one piano, the pupils waste time waiting for their turn. Worse, they grow bored...
Snake handling, which has been practiced in the South since the turn of the century, is based on Jesus' words in Mark 16: "In my name they will cast out demons; they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing it will not hurt them." The snakes, which are kept in special boxes by leaders of the congregation, are usually brought out as the climax to frenzied revival meetings that may last for as long as four hours. "When the ecstasy of the Lord is upon you and you take up serpents," explains Mullins, "you have...