Word: eberhard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Karl Barth: His Life from Letters and Autobiographical Texts by Eberhard Busch (Fortress, 1976). A colleague's intimate biography of the courageous polymath who was this century's leading Protestant theologian...
...dark-suited industrialists who stood with bowed heads, the unusual invocation by Detroit City Councilman David Eberhard was as right and natural as the Pledge of Allegiance. The prayer opened the weekly luncheon of the Economic Club of Detroit, the automobile capital of the world, and never before have the men who put the U.S. on wheels had more reason to seek divine intervention. Over the next half dozen years, the edgy managers of General Motors, Ford, Chrysler and American Motors will need all the help they...
...cymbal bags and gone away, ample percussive talents have arrived in Boston to fill the void. Billy Cobham is playing tonight at the Paradise, and Jack DeJohnette is appearing tomorrow night at the Berklee Performance Center with John Abercrombie, Eddie Gomez, Lester Bowie, and special guest bass player Eberhard Weber...
West Germany, meanwhile, was bury-.ng its dead. In Stuttgart, Chancellor Schmidt and 700 official mourners drawn from the ranks of government, business and labor attended a state funeral for Schleyer. As police sharpshooters perched on the rooftops of buildings that surrounded St. Eberhard's Church, President Walter Scheel in his eulogy described the struggle against terrorism as "the fight of civilization against barbarians." Declared Scheel: "If this flame is not smothered immediately, the brushfire will spread over the whole world...
...outdoor illumination will crimp the plans of many communities and businesses to put up dazzling Christmas displays. Even before the President's call for a blackout, Detroit Mayor Roman S. Gribbs had ordered a "dimout" of Christmas lighting, and has been severely criticized for it. Groused Councilman David Eberhard: "This town needs some joy. If we turn off the color, the sparkle, the life, then we're a dead city." To conserve electricity, the small town of Jefferson, Iowa, stilled the carillon bells that pealed hymns and patriotic music...