Word: benediction
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Sources close to the Amherst College Presidential search committee report that Dean Henry Rosovsky has been offered the college's Presidency. Rosovsky declines comment. Two days later, Reginald Arnold Benedict IV, the had of the search committee, announces that "Henry Rosovsky will not be the next president of Amherst." Sources close to the search committee announce that Rosovsky said he could not abandon his review of undergraduate education "at this time...
From that moment unti his appearance before the Ethics Committee in September, Schorr was in limbo. He became a cause celebre, a defender of free speech to some, a Benedict Arnold to others. He describes that period as "unreal." He said he could not understand what he "was doing on the other side of the microphone." After devoting an entire life to reporting, to asking the questions, now he had to answer them...
...Conservatory's other attractions are less expensive--they're free--and are also pleasant concerts of appealing and interesting works. The NEC Conservatory Repertory Orchestra performs Berlioz's Overture to "Beatrice and Benedict," Debussy's "Iberia," and Beethoven's "Pastoral Symphony" on Wednesday at 8 p.m. in Jordan Hall, Boston. Don't miss that. Composer-flutist John Heiss is presenting a recital of contemporary American works on Monday--same time, same place. "A Musical Offering by J. S. Bach," at King's Chapel, Sunday at 5 p.m., features performances on original instruments at baroque pitch with early tunings. Again...
...after only 161 days in office. The11th century Pope Benedict IX resigned once or twice (historians disagree) and Pope Gregory XII renounced the chair in 1415 as part of an effort to heal the Great Western Schism...
Neumann's advocates persisted, and they finally got a hearing with Pope Benedict XV and a board of Cardinals in 1921. Just a few hours before that meeting, the main opponent of Neumann's canonization collapsed and died in a barber's chair. Benedict subsequently designated Neumann as Venerable (worthy of veneration and a proper recipient of private prayers)-the beginning of the long process to sainthood. In doing so the Pope set a precedent for the future judgment of possible saints by declaring: "Even the most simple works, performed with constant perfection in the midst...