Word: brigid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Approaching a woman waiting to receive Communion last week at St. Brigid's Catholic Church in Pacific Beach, Calif., the priest paused hesitantly. Eying the National Organization for Women button she was wearing, he asked gravely: "Do you believe in abortion?" Just as seriously, she responded: "You mean I have to give my beliefs before I receive Communion...
...answer was yes. The woman was just one of dozens of parishioners sporting NOW buttons who were refused the Eucharist at St. Brigid's and other Roman Catholic churches in the San Diego area. Surprising as it was, the altar quizzing formed only part of the spectacle at the church. Outside, a crowd of angry feminists joined in a chant: "Not the church. Not the state. Women must decide our fate." Some carried signs that urged: PRAY TO GOD. SHE WILL HELP...
...World section. In a team approach we often use on major projects, other departments joined in: articles on climate changes and the process of starving to death were contributed by Science Writer Frederic Golden and Medicine Writer Peter Stoler with back-up from Reporter-Researchers Allan Hill, Brigid O'Hara-Forster and F. Sydnor Vanderschmidt. Supervising the entire report was Senior Editor Marshall Loeb...
British literary intelligentsia, Malcolm Muggeridge once said, may generally be viewed as "priests and religious manques. The Rev. Stephen Spender, Father [Cyril] Connolly, Dom Graham Greene, Sister Brigid Brophy." To this list should be added Muggeridge himself: the Prophet Malcolm...
...words--an area he knows like the back of his hand. He seems equally at home conversing with Nabokov and Asimov, I.F. Stone and I.B. Singer, Georges Simenon and Alain Robbe-Grillet. Perhaps he is most comfortable with writers like S.J. Perelman (the subject of three separate interviews) and Brigid Brophy, who share his penchant for groan-inducing puns and shameless plays on words. Parelman, Shenker tells us, has a myna bird, "scion of an ancient mynasty,...and wherever Perelman goes the bird is sure to go; it followed him to shul one day." (The bird, incidentally, is christened "Nixon...