Word: discreeter
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...ample jowls and round, beamish face, she looks a bit like Benny Hill--without, of course, the late British comic's leering smirk. Her voice is high-pitched, nasal and a trifle slurred, her frequent laugh a piercing cackle. At a time when some Roman Catholic nuns wear discreet designer clothes, she is resolutely old-fashioned in her ankle-length brown robe and hair-concealing white scapular. The Catholicism she espouses is old-fashioned as well, redolent with devotion to the Virgin Mary and the Latin-rite mass, deeply rooted in the Baltimore Catholicism of the 1940s. Some critics call...
...shooting videotape and taking pictures off China's southern coast in an area where military maneuvers were recently held, were expelled after Secretary of State Warren Christopher met yesterday with Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen. Christopher reportedly did not mention the two during the meeting. "The Administration has been discreet in its reaction," saysTIME's Mark Thompson. "Plainly, negotiations between China and Washington are so fragile that if these two were doing anything untoward, the U.S. wanted to whisk them home as quickly as possible and start with a fresh slate...
...anyone, including a judge in South Carolina, to say that they do not have the right to know the truth about the extraordinary past of an applicant for membership in the community they oversee because they cannot be trusted to be discreet and act fairly? Whoever wants to assert that ought to state it plainly. And then they should state what that view leads to--that Harvard is not a community where the many adhere to a code of conduct that rests on humanitarian ideals, but just a collection of individuals who are morally free to get here...
...want to be. The real issue, blithely dodged in this movie, is the Catholic sin of giving scandal. A priest is, after all, Christ's salesman and stand-in. He need not be infallible--since he is human and conceived in sin-but he'd damn well better be discreet. So it is one thing for old Matthew to keep a woman quietly in the rectory; it is another for young Greg to go cruising in a gay bar near his parish. Or surrender to rapture on a public beach. Or have oral sex in a car on the street...
...Winter, to cryptocatholicism and his theory of "Lockean Glasses"--he believes John Locke is responsible for the way in which we see the world. Sam J. Rascoff '96 became a "devotee" of Henrie's when he was a freshman. "While a professor has instructed me in a set of discreet material," Rascoff says, "Mark has shaped my taste in the higher sense...