Word: rev
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Church is diametrically opposed to the basic creed of Christian faith," Rev. Stephen Short. chaplain at Howard University, told an audience of about 150 in Harvard Hall last night...
...those stirring words uttered last week by the Rev. Ian Paisley, 54, the durable firebrand of Ulster politics, had a strangely familiar ring, it was not accidental. Precisely the same call to arms had been issued 69 years earlier by Ulster Hero Sir Edward Carson, when he rallied fellow Protestants fighting to keep their ties to the United Kingdom rather than accept Irish home rule and Catholic domination. Paisley, too, was seeking to stir support among Ulster's 1 million Protestants against any conceivable sellout to the Catholics, and he had an additional motive. With local elections scheduled...
...national cohesion. All members of the Moral Majority-just another minority interest group, for all the self-righteousness of the title -should probably have the Bill of Rights embroidered on their shirt cuffs, lest some of their coercive impulses run away with them. The movement led by the Rev. Jerry Falwell is potentially dangerous to democracy; with a disturbing touch of zealotry and intolerance, it would like to impose by legislation its interpretations of Christian morality upon the rest of the erring populace. Of course the Falwells can argue that they are simply reacting against the liberals' own past...
...Rev. Peter J. Gomes, who chaired the nine-member student-faculty committee, said before embarking last week on a spring sabbatical that he expects sharp scrutiny--if not opposition--from both students and faculty...
Last week, a committee of student and faculty members, headed by Rev. Peter J. Gomes, presented a proposal on "race relations" to President Bok. The Harvard Administration has long declared its willingness to listen to the campus' non-white community. Through the proposal of this as yet untitled Foundation, Black students may find a channel for political expression...