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...Jewish liberal bimonthly Tikkun. But her fascination with the terrain is all her own. She has been groping for an understanding of "what it means to be a human being in the 20th century" ever since she was 14 and began attending the youth sessions of the Rev. Donald G. Jones in Park Ridge, Illinois. He cemented her sense as a Methodist of an obligation to help the less fortunate and introduced her to the writings of theologians Paul Tillich and Reinhold Niebuhr. The former sought to redefine the Christian role in the modern world as one of overcoming alienation...
...forefront of the new movement are two leading proponents of urban bootstrap economics: Danny J. Bakewell, a wealthy real estate developer and president of the Brotherhood Crusade; and the Rev. Charles R. Stith, president and founder of the seven-year-old Organization for a New Equality (ONE) in Boston. Both men are pushing versions of the same idea: that economics is the key building block of political power. As Stith points out, in the U.S. the median white family's net worth is about $43,000, in contrast to $4,100 for the median black household. "The inescapable conclusion...
Last December, with a similar $1 million grant from the Walt Disney Co., the city's First African Methodist Episcopal Church launched a Renaissance Program of 20 entrepreneurial projects. Among them: a loan plan that the church's pastor, the Rev. Cecil Murray, says will renovate 35 existing black businesses in Los Angeles, start up 35 new ones and employ 350 people. "Spiritual development cannot take place without economic development," Murray says of the church's economic gospel. Says Danny Bakewell: "It has to be an active principle. It is not something that you can just talk about on Sunday...
...famous with a catchbark (Woof! Woof! Woof!). But Home Improvement may be the first show ever to rise to the top with the help of a catchgrunt. It's the growl of hairy-chested pleasure (Arrggh! Arrggh! Arrggh!) that protagonist Tim Taylor utters whenever he sees a chance to rev up his trusty power tools...
...stand out from the crowd," preparations begin immediately to endure one of those tauntingly defiant My Way-style apologias. But after this initial flirtation, Charles goes his own way, and My World becomes instead a guardedly optimistic paean to human potential. It's damn near Jacksonesque (Michael or the Rev. Jesse, your pick) and sends the album off on a smooth trip where the air is rare...