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...BEHOLD, it was in the last year of the reign of King Derek when the people of Israel went astray. They followed false political paths and forsook their convenant with the God of Abraham. And lo, there arose in the land two prophets, and they were righteous men. They cried out unto the people of Israel, 'Repent! Betray not the Law and the teachings of your fathers!' And their names were called Kenneth D. DeGiorgio '93 and E. Adam Webb...
...Ibsen is the father, is chiefly concerned with the realistic portrayal of human experience. The viewer must be able to establish a rapport with the characters and their actions. Ibsen himself was so concerned with this point that after the publication of his first successful work, Peer Gynt, he forsook verse for prose, which he identified as more characteristic of actual experience...
Across the country, there is a discernible turn back to the church among educated, affluent blacks. As a young man, Baltimore civil engineer Larry Little, 41, forsook religion for radical politics. Years later, he felt isolated as the only black in his Ph.D. program at Johns Hopkins and resumed churchgoing, currently at Baltimore's Bethel A.M.E. Church. Many other black urban professionals tell similar stories. Lincoln and Mamiya argue that the resurgence of interest underscores the vital need for better educated clergy...
...date he has attracted several thousand disciples, both ex-Catholics and ex-Protestants. Stallings says he gives eight or ten speeches a month around the U.S., and each time he speaks, local blacks want to set up churches. But the priest of a second African-American congregation in Washington forsook Stallings last year...
Years ago, students who could afford choice lodgings forsook Harvard dorms for the "Gold Coast" apartments of Cambridge--an option that first year students in recent years might have found attractive...