Word: commons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sympathetic to the Synod's views than in the U.S. All in all, the Synod claims a founding flock of 290 parishes in 85 of the 95 U.S. dioceses. Boosters are talking grandly of enlisting 200,000 Episcopalians by Christmas of 1990 to sign the Synod's Declaration of Common Faith and Purpose, which so far has been endorsed by 26 dissident bishops and 13,000 priests and lay members...
...glittering glass-and-steel Bank of China, Southeast Asia's tallest building and a prominent addition to Hong Kong's spectacular skyline, was to embody the faith that both Hong Kong and China placed in a common future, a visible symbol of the "one country, two systems" promised when the British crown colony reverts to China in 1997. Last week two enormous black-and-white banners drooped across the tower's facade bearing a grim message in Chinese characters: BLOOD MUST BE PAID WITH BLOOD...
...year-old housewife named Belinda Mason, who was infected with the virus when she received a transfusion of untested blood during delivery of her second child. She lives in Tobinsport, Ind., a heartland town where AIDS services are scarce and discrimination against patients is all too common. Yet Mason, who is chairwoman of the National Association of People with AIDS, is convinced she is witnessing the transformation of the epidemic. Says she: "I think I'm going to be in the first generation to see AIDS become a chronic, manageable illness...
...international laws govern the christening of countries: the label that sticks is determined by the tastes or even the sanity of its rulers. Anti- colonialism, however, is the most common rationale for national renaming. During the 1950s and '60s, anti-colonialism swept through the newly independent nations of Africa. The Gold Coast dubbed itself Ghana, in honor of an ancient African empire that was located hundreds of miles from the modern nation. When the Belgian Congo became independent in 1960, it renamed itself the Republic of the Congo. Eleven years later, President Joseph Mobutu rechristened it the Republic of Zaire...
...masterpieces as James Joyce's The Dead and Frank O'Connor's The Majesty of the Law. The familiar mixes easily with material less so: William Carleton's eerie The Death of a Devotee, Bernard Mac Laverty's grim Life Drawing. All this diversity is held together by a common trait, an irresistible claim on attention, the written equivalent of a tug at the lapel or a hand on the shoulder. This book can be picked up and put down many times, but hardly ever in the middle of a story...