THE IDLE AMERICANCommentary by Dr. Don Newbury Only one other example of ongoing embarrassment trumps name-calling many of us faced in elementary school during the final years of the Great Depression. And it was in the “funny papers,” for crying out loud. No “real people” were involved, unless the late Charles Schulz–creator of the popular “Peanuts” cartoon starring Charlie Brown and
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Alegria Mexicana What: Ballet Folklórico de Alvaro Munoz presents “Alegria Mexicana”When: 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27Where: Paramount Theater, 352 Cypress St. Tickets: $17 for adults and $14 for childrenAbout: Abilene’s Award-Winning Ballet Folklorico de Alvaro Munoz will present dances from the regions of Hidalgo, Yucatan, Chihuahua, Jerez Zacatecas, Nayarit, La Revolucion, Fusion Veracruz, Jalisco, Yoremadas Sierrenas, Sinaloa Mestizo and Sinaloa Costa. By
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By Loretta Fulton Dr. Lynne Murray will be inaugurated as McMurry University’s 11th president at 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 26, in Radford Auditorium. Theme for the inauguration and a reception to follow will be “Rising With Purpose.” The reception will immediately follow the inauguration in Garrison United Methodist Campus Center. The two events will highlight a week of activities tied
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By Glenn Dromgoole Brevity is a virtue, to be sure. But evidently not in literature. These days, a book needs to be at least 100,000 words to be taken seriously. Well, I’ve written about 35 books, and if you took all my books and put them together, they might not top 100,000 words. But, then, I’ve not always been taken
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By Loretta Fulton The biblical book of Job and a new book about it will be the topic of the presentation at the September meeting of the Abilene Association of Congregations. The meeting, which is open to the public, will begin with lunch at 11:45 a.m. Wednesday,Sept. 24, at Grace Lutheran Church, 1202 S. Pioneer Drive. It will be co-hosted
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Click here to read full ACU enrollment news release. Click here to read full McMurry enrollment news release. Click here to read full Hardin-Simmons enrollment news release. By Loretta Fulton McMurry and Abilene Christian universities enrolled record numbers of students for the fall semester, while Hardin-Simmons’ total enrollment dipped slightly but showed improvement in certain areas. McMurry recorded its third consecutive year
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By Jim Nichols Something flew out a window of the White House and landed on the ground. I saw the brief video, as did others. It looked like something that had weight to it rather than just being a paper that floated. It was more solid than that. Later in the day a reporter asked the President about it. His
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By Glenn Dromgoole I got another tumbler for my birthday. That makes at least five or six competing for space on a crowded shelf in the kitchen. And how many of those do I actually use? Not more than one at a time. Why, I wonder, is there an overpopulation of tumblers? I think it’s because they make a very
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By Nancy Patrick My dad used a phrase to refer to someone or something he considered useless as “not worth a plugged nickel.” In my old age, I think that phrase may relate to my own sense of worth or lack thereof. For many years I enjoyed an abundance of energy, a good brain, a rewarding career, and a relatively
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