Word: rev
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Whatever the motive for the killing, tension mounted after a series of protest marches through Bensonhurt led by one of the city's most flamboyant rabble-rousers, the Rev. Al Sharpton. Inflammatory press coverage added to the heat. When the first two Bensonhurst youths charged with the killing went on trial separately in state supreme court on April 16, apprehension gripped the city. Not-guilty verdicts, blustered Sharpton, would be "telling us to burn the town down...
...price of top stars heads for the stratosphere, blockbuster-hungry studios rev up the costliest summer lineup of sequels and action films yet. -- Even once lowly screenwriters are joining the ranks of millionaires. -- A private eye tracks down the loot from defrauded savings and loans...
...Rev. Jesse Jackson raised many issues in his speech at the Institute of Politics, one of which was the press' questionable coverage of Black issues affecting both the national and international communities. He specifically spoke of the distorted reporting and deliberate lack of coverage of Black political campaigns in the U.S. and struggles for empowerment in African nations. Perhaps the press' neglect can be attributed to the general disinterest of the American public at large in minority issues; and perhaps this is the public to which the press feels it must cater. This does not, however, excuse The Crimson...
Saying the Law School should solve its own problems, Dean Robert C. Clark has declined the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson's offer to help mediate a stand-off between the administration and Weld Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell over affirmative action policies...
...R.S.V. goes its separate way too. Like other modern renderings from the ancient Hebrew and Greek, it systematically abandons the archaic thee and thou forms in addressing God. More important, in the words of the Rev. Bruce Metzger, the chief translator, it circumvents the "inherent bias of the English language toward the masculine gender." During the 1980s the National Council of Churches, in response to insistent feminist demands, published three sets of highly controversial rewrites of certain Bible passages. The texts referred to God as "Father ((and Mother))," inserted women's names that did not appear in the original...