Word: canon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decorum she may have felt that their very privacy was what made them unpublishable. If so, she failed to reckon on this age's voracious, ransacking appetite for all that is private in a writer's life. As significant as her novels may be in the canon of modernist fiction, what really makes her writing live today-and what largely accounts for the current Virginia Woolf boom in publishing-is the vividness of personality in her nonfiction. When her letters and memoirs are added to the complete diaries (three volumes published, with...
Getting the idea off the ground never promised to be simple. Canon Ed Rodman, minister to minorities for the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, recently recalled the Covenant's genesis. "It really has two origins," Rodman said. One group, consisting mainly of "grass roots people" and ministers, hoped to turn the drive for racial harmony into a people's movement. The other, headed by members of the Roman Catholic clergy and Black Protestant ministers, wanted to stress the role of the organized church in promoting racial justice, Rodman said. The two were called to a meeting by Fr. Michael Groden...
...canon, who did not sign the Covenant and wears no olive branch ("I'm not a hypocrite," he said), started the Boston Urban Coalition with other Episcopalians who wish to approach the issues of the Covenant from a different perspective. "You could say that on one level, the problem in the city is between Black folks and Catholics," he said. "But to think that they're the only ones who have a stake in the city--that's ludicrous." Rodman believes the Covenant organizers have erred in limiting the concept to the city of Boston, but said they have done...
...detective? Is he a woman? Is he Drood himself? Through the drama swirl the premonitory themes of drug addiction and Eastern religion, played out by a varied cast of supporting characters (and suspects): the cheerful clergyman Crisparkle; Mr. Grewgious, one of the very few likable lawyers in the Dickens canon; the admirable young naval officer, Lieutenant Tartar; the sulky clerk Bazzard; and the bullying philanthropist, Mr. Honeythunder. All are the products of a unique and fevered imagination; none can possibly be reproduced. Or can they...
...appearance with the band, said that "sleeping on the floor of the B.C. hockey rink where the Band lodged during its stay in Boston-really wasn't that bad except for the noise. There was a large amount of snoring and thrusting and things." Joe's band instrument? The canon...