Word: ecclesiasticism
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"The Cat's Cradle" contains the most accomplished writing in the issue, which is no surprise, coming as it does from F. Kimball's ecclesiastic phase. I boggled a bit at the ending which, though perfectly consistent and the hinge of the story, was slightly theatrical.
Upon graduation, about 35 percent of the class goes on to some form of graduate work--mostly medicine or law. A sprinkling finds its way to Business School, and a few eyeing a university teaching post, attack an MA degree. One or two still enter theological seminary, harkening back to...
Painful Conflict. Though the Vatican termed stories of intervention by Duplessis "ridiculous," its spokesman noted that the archbishop's resignation "automatically dispels what had become a painful conflict of opinion between ecclesiastic and civil authority." Msgr. Antoniutti, charged with settling the conflict, had put his problem to Charbonneau. The...
At 50, Hoagy can almost support his family (a wife and two young sons) on the income from Stardust, written in 1929. Says he: "It's practically an annuity." He still felt "like a rank amateur" after his first long-haired composition, but he confessed he was already at...
Like most Methodist ministers at the turn of the century, Virginia's young (36) James Cannon Jr. was dedicated to the defeat of the Demon Rum. Gaunt and black-bearded, humorless and generally disliked, he licked alcohol by legislation in his native state (1914), did as much as any...