Word: connors
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Complete with a Big Daddy and a Kindly Uncle. Roger Straus Jr., 71, is brawny, with silver hair and a salty tongue. Editorial Board Chairman Robert Giroux, 73, is more reserved, an inside man whose contributions to the list include T.S. Eliot, Flannery O'Connor, Robert Lowell and Bernard Malamud. The outspoken Straus bluntly rejects the nostalgic notion that publishing was once a gentlemen's business. "They were poor businessmen," he says of many of the resonant names of the profession, "poor marketers out to massage their own egos generation after generation...
...century earlier had not bestowed. The civil rights movement from Montgomery to Memphis was an American epic, with a thousand evocations of place and name: the lunch counters of Greensboro in 1960; the "Freedom Riders" of 1961; SNCC; CORE; the March on Washington; James Meredith; Medgar Evers; Bull Connor in Birmingham; Philadelphia, Miss.; Schwerner, Goodman and Chaney . . . But race and slavery, America's original sin, came back always, and had begun to break into sporadic warfare in the Northern ghettos...
...document, adopted unanimously by the board but not completed until after adjournment of the bishops' annual meeting, took a number of prelates by surprise. Some were appalled; others found the text woefully fuzzy. Early off the mark was John Cardinal O'Connor of New York City, who called the document a "grave mistake." O'Connor, a leader of the conservative, Rome-oriented wing of U.S. Catholicism and the only clergyman on President Reagan's AIDS commission, complained that it had caused "serious confusion" among Catholics and in the press. Conservative Cardinals John Krol of Philadelphia and Bernard Law of Boston...
...clear division emerged between the Bernardin group and Pope John Paul II's more recent conservative appointees, notably Law and O'Connor. As other bishops across the U.S. last week lined up on either side of the argument, it was widely speculated that the issue went beyond condoms and involved a struggle for ascendancy in the American church. Said Syndicated Columnist Joseph Sobran, a conservative Catholic: "It's all come to a head in this statement...
...late-morning coffee. "A bit cocktailish, don't you think?" one said. White House officials were also miffed that Raisa chose to set up a colloquy with prominent women at the home of Democratic Fund Raiser Pamela Harriman. Among the guests: Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, University of Chicago President Hanna Gray, Publisher Katharine Graham and Senators Barbara Mikulski and Nancy Kassebaum. Nonetheless, by the end of the summit, official patch-up stories were issuing from the White House. Raisa, it was said, had asked Nancy at the Soviets' Thursday dinner, "What is this about our not liking...