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...turn, took notice. Says Michael Maudlin, editorial director at Christianity Today: "Even Billy says she's the best preacher in the family." ("I agree," says Franklin.) Yet the plaudit carried an asterisk. At a 1988 pastors' conference, many in Lotz's audience ostentatiously turned their chairs around so as not to face a preaching woman. Says Martin: "There was no chance of her taking [the leadership] role in the BGEA hierarchy because she's the daughter instead of the son." In fact, despite being on the BGEA board, Lotz has only once had a major part in a Crusade...
Tall, good-looking, and athletic, Bok made good on the family roots right off the bat as an undergraduate at Stanford, earning plaudit as a veritable Big Man on Campus, a reputation he carried with him to Harvard Law School...
Passive by nature, Haider is also highly suggestible. His father-in-law suggests that he join the Nazi Party, so he does. An old World War I buddy (Pip Miller) suggests that he join the SS elite corps, so he does. The uniform thrills him, as does a written plaudit from the Führer on his pro-euthanasia novel: "The surge of pride in me! Reading that scrawled sentence in Adolfs shaky hand-It said: 'Written from the heart...
...most laughter was one Kirkland House resident's present--a workout log book for Friday and Saturday nights, complete with spaces for pulse rates, hours of sleep, and calories burned. Also memorable was the king-size tube of toothpaste presented to perpetually-smiling freshman JEANNE FLOYD, and the "First" plaudit to sophomore NANCY GARDNER for a gutsy effort in her first try at competitive swimming...
They were difficult years. Each foreign plaudit that fell upon Solzhenitsyn was followed by a turn of the Kremlin's screw at the dacha. As Rostropovich tells it, "Official people said I must kick him out. My wife and I did not find that reasonable. We explained our point of view?that each human being has a right to make of his life what he wants." In October 1970 Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize. When the Soviet press increased its abuse of the author, Rostropovich became enraged and decided to write a letter of protest. Says he: "This was greatest...