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Word: anglicanism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Book of Genesis." The resultant loss of his faith in Christianity has left Horace painfully vulnerable to other blows. Bad enough that Charlotte has not spoken to him during the past 15 years of their marriage. Now his son Lionel writes from Oxford that he wishes to become an Anglican priest. And Chatterway's reappearance, as an old friend of his wife's side of the family, has further disrupted Nettleship's domestic routine. The scandalmonger comes calling, along with Egg and a young artist who has been working on the old poet's portrait. Horace does not like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Humors | Gentlemen in England | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...last-minute addition to Botha's 27-minute speech, the proposal was dismissed by critics as a bit of charlatanry aimed at emphasizing South Africa's solidarity with the West against Soviet Communism. Declared Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu, the winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize: "What has Nelson's release to do with Sakharov? I can't see why they are linked. It looks like a ploy that a politician has thought up, that will sound good to ears in the West (and show) that he is concerned about prisoners of conscience --when he's got so many prisoners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Apartheid with a Smiling Face | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

...have overseen his life. Under their influence, Cornish has lead a decidedly bizarre existence. His parents essentially abandon him at the beginning of this century to be raised in a miniscule Canadian town by his Catholic great aunt who bootlegs Catholicism to him against the wishes of his resolutely Anglican father...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: A Poorly Cast Spell | 1/13/1986 | See Source »

...before the session was scheduled to begin, the Palestinian delegates, Anglican Bishop Elia Khoury of Amman and Mohammed Milhem, former mayor of the Israeli-occupied West Bank village of Halhul, suddenly balked. After consultation, the pair refused to sign a declaration that acknowledged Israel's right to exist. Howe called the cancellation a "disappointment and a setback," but added, "We must not allow it to be a fatal one." The problem for the P.L.O. was compounded on Tuesday when Jordan's King Hussein announced his support for the British decision to call | off the meeting. Said Hussein: "We'll have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: The Price of Success | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

What blacks will still lack is political power. Under the new proposals, they will not be granted the right to vote, nor will they have their own separate "parliament," like the two chambers created last year for the vastly smaller colored (mixed race) and Indian communities. Thus, Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu dismissed the latest proposals as a "crumb" and as "piecemeal reform, grudgingly given." Still, in the South African context, last week's announcements represented some progress. Welcoming the government's shift on its citizenship policy, the leader of the white parliamentary opposition, Dr. Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert, declared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Cracks in the System | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

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