Word: rev
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Bock and Jackson--who served this summer on the committee formed by Bok last spring--wrote the letter in response to this week's Faculty Council meeting at which the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, chairman of the committee, discussed the group's work to date...
...fitting that the committee, chaired by the Rev. Peter J. Gomes and consisting of five Faculty members and three undergraduates, has looked into some of the deeper philosophical issues surrounding the problems faced by minority students at Harvard. But the committee's primary responsibility is to present a concrete proposal to Bok for a Third World center by January 1. We urge the committee to expedite its deliberations and also hope that Bok will not turn his back on a workable suggestion...
They call the opposite line "godless humanism." It is difficult to see where the appeal lies in this approach--their pamphlets are denegrating, apocalyptic, frightening. So they de-emphasize the verbal, instead concentrating on the visual. Rev. Jerry Falwell, the national leader, guests on Donahue and the late-afternoon talk-show circuit, while his recruits ferret out converts for their congregations. The message comes across differently now--the pastor's eyes are compassionate; he tells you he loves you and he's trying to help you. So if you can't vote for Ben-jamin Bubar, the ultra-conservative candidate...
...Rev. Jesse Jackson, black activist: "Mr. Reagan's approach to foreign policy is that of a macho man. And John Anderson is a vacuum cleaner to suck up the frustrated, the purist and the self-righteous...
...idea of a Covenant, now entering its second year, is no longer a novelty but a concept in the midst of change. Rev. Donald Luster of the Charles St. AME Church in Roxbury, a member of the Covenant steering committee, said, "We're in a process of trying to re-evaluate what has already been done and to try to ascertain where there have been some breakdowns. We haven't been going in a fluid motion," he admitted. While some downtown churches have maintained Covenant sponsored dialogues between people of different races, Luster said, "areas such as Dorchester and Roxbury...