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Conservatives pleaded that the church wait for a broader agreement before taking the momentous step. "We are a house divided. The good people in the pews back home have not decided this issue," said Connecticut Laywoman Ann Robinson during the deputies' mannerly debate. But Canon R. Stewart Wood of Indianapolis said further delay would "let the guts of the church turn and turn and turn...
...Clement Haynsworth. Schweiker also voted to override every one of Nixon's 14 vetoes. For such behavior, he earned a place on Nixon's enemies list. Only on the issues of abortion, gun control and busing-all of which he opposes-has Schweiker deviated from the liberal canon. A student of the John Kennedy assassination, Schweiker embarrassed himself last October by impetuously calling previous investigations of the murder "a coverup" and predicting that the Warren Commission Report would collapse "like a house of cards...
STRATFORD, Conn.--To be fair. I had best start with a confession: As You Like It is not a play I particularly treasure. Sooth to say, I would if pressed have to place it, in the entire Shakespearean canon, about three-quarters of the way down the list. I know, I know: critics the world over continue to acclaim the work in rapture, and teachers ecstatically lead their charges through it in almost every high school in the land...
Died. Dame Sybil Thorndike, 93, grande dame of the British stage; of a heart attack; in London. The witty, compact daughter of an Anglican canon, Dame Sybil insisted that she cared "not a blessed hoot about stardom." Between her first appearance onstage in 1904 and her last, in 1970, she gave thousands of performances, many of them with London's famed Old Vic repertory and her actor-director husband, Sir Lewis Casson. Her favorite role: the boisterous peasant revolutionary in Saint Joan, which George Bernard Shaw wrote expressly for Dame Sybil...
Nothing in the Freudian canon, however, outrages feminists more than the notion of penis envy-that female identity hinges on the crippling discovery that boys have penises and girls do not. Thus the latest psychoanalytic research on the question, due in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, is bound to incur feminist wrath. Says Co-Author Dr. Eleanor Galenson of New York's Albert Einstein College of Medicine: "Some women's lib people have felt that penis envy is a dirty word, but there is no doubt that it occurs, and much earlier...