Word: children
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Viet Nam Paychecks. The slum-centered third-Holy Cross High-was in no position to boost its $220 tuition, but the twelve brothers who run it refused to quit. In a city where 44% of the Chicano population are functionally illiterate, they argued, only the Catholic schools offer slum children a quality education. In fact, 85% of Holy Cross's 560 male students are Mexican-Americans and 80% of them go on to college, compared with 11% from the district's public high schools...
...community," according to its pastor, it has 160 members who have "accepted the covenant" and 100 or so more who attend with some regularity. The members are busy, but not with the usual parochial committee work. Wednesday nights, adults meet for "content" sessions on spiritual and social questions while children gather for freewheeling classes on the arts. On Thursdays, adults gather T-group style for community problem solving. On Sundays, worship services usually begin with ten or 15 minutes of informal discussion among the congregation, followed by liturgy and music that are often composed by Lundin, formerly a professional musician...
...seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominions, powers, etc. Only the lowest ranks, archangels and angels, have ever had contact with man, appearing as messengers and ministers of God, especially at crucial moments when things had to be done that defied human logic-opening the Red Sea, for example, so that the children of Israel could pass. But no scriptural source deals adequately with such practical matters as what angels wore, what they really looked like, what sex, if any, they possessed. Man was left to imagine these details according to need and fashion...
...Children of Sánchez, Oscar Lewis...
...Park; though he can seek damages, he is now a U.S. agricultural aide in Tokyo. Sullivan has leased the house to another Negro. Air Force Sergeant James L. Malloy, but he hesitates to join the club. "There is a very unhealthy atmosphere here," says Malloy, "and I know my children won't be welcome at the pool...