Word: clothe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gossip was once the province of the fan magazine or the newspaper column. With the diminution of these outlets, the stories have found their way between cloth covers. No matter how thick those covers, they cannot disguise the poverty and pretension of the contents. It may be true, as Edwin Booth observed, that most actors' work is writ on water. Alas, it is truer to say that most actors' lives are rot on paper...
RELIGION: Wearing the Cloth...
...women, up from 332 in 1970, and the United Presbyterian Church has 189, compared with 103 in 1972. The Lutheran Church in America, which began ordaining women in 1970, has 24 women in clerical posts. U.S. Judaism recently gained its second female rabbi. The number of women wearing the cloth is sure to expand soon because many more are in training. The proportion of women enrolled in the 195 schools accredited by the Association of Theological Schools is now about 14%, up from 10% in 1972. But there have been greater changes in some of the leading schools. Women account...
...tiresome commentary on Paul's mentality; rational, utilitarian, compartmentalized. Adriana is the classic female--equal shares of mysterious introspection, intuitive insight and the constant assertion of the spiritual over the physical. As she is about to make love with Paul for the first time, she drapes a black cloth on the window (it is day time) because, she tells him, he will not judge her only by her body, like most...
...meantime, the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam, faced with governing a country devastated by two decades of war, has asked for help from anyone who will offer it--especially food, medicines, and cloth. The United States should respond to the PRG's call. It is not a matter of discharging America's debt to Vietnam--too many Vietnamese, like many of the Americans sent to stop their revolution, are beyond the reach of debtors and creditors alike. It is more a matter of earning the astonishing friendship so many Vietnamese have expressed towards an American people that...