Word: wesley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ensley's address, which was endorsed by all 95 bishops, said the church contains many "wistful skeptics," some of whom are clergymen. "Probably not for centuries has the witness of Christian people on ultimate questions been so hesitant and uncertain." The Articles of Religion of Methodist Founder John Wesley, for instance, stated that Jesus arose bodily from the grave. But a 1965 poll showed that only 49% of the Methodist clergy believe this any more...
NEIL HARRIS and RICHARD WESLEY...
...picnics, but he also likes to keep other women on the side. Coretta wants the security that this black man cannot give her, and Nate wants the freedom that the white world will not allow him. They are caught in the bittersweet toils of their love, and Richard Wesley has written a tender, sad and compassionate play that is utterly and luminously honest. T.E. Kalem
Doubting, Questioning. When the Public Theater's new season began last week, the lineup of at least seven full-scale plays and seven workshop productions was typical. Set to open this week, for example, are two dramas: The Black Terror, "a revolutionary adventure story" by Black Playwright Richard Wesley, and Sticks and Bones, by David Rabe, about the family life of a blind Viet Nam veteran. In previews is a musical version of the Greek tragedy Iphigenia. And the workshop is preparing a production of Bertolt Brecht's In the Jungle of Cities...
...erected billboards without getting the required permits, the state ordered the billboards removed. The company did not do so, and the state sued. The court set penalties of $59,230-$100 a day for each of 572 days of violation plus twice the cost of removal. Owner Wesley K. Bell argued that under the statute he was entitled to go to jail for 30 days rather than pay. The state met that proposal with its own: Bell should serve 30 days for each day of the offense, amounting to 47 years. The lower court denied both motions, leaving...