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Although Bea FitzGerald, 66, first heard the call as a young woman, she pushed it aside to raise her seven children. After her husband left in 1968, she put herself through school and supported her family as a registered nurse. Once her children were grown, the call grew louder. She obtained an annulment, joined the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, based in Louisville, Ky., and, at 51, became one of the growing number of so-called Sister Moms. While widowed or divorced women with grown children have long entered religious life, Sister Moms in the U.S. are now establishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Today's Nun Has A Veil--And A Blog | 11/13/2006 | See Source »

...Against the Day weighs just 3 oz. less than my toaster. But my toaster doesn't offer the tantalizing music of Pynchon's voice, with its shifts from comic shtick to heartbroken threnody, its mordant Faulkneresque interludes, its gusts of lyric melancholy blown in by way of F. Scott Fitzgerald, its ecstatic perorations from Jack Kerouac. And my toaster will never lay before me a vision of a world in which technology is stripping away all the ancient, vital magic while shepherding mankind to the brink of destruction. On the other hand, my toaster makes toast, and nothing quite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pynchon vs. the Toaster | 11/12/2006 | See Source »

...refused to back down," Yarmuth, 59, told a wildly cheering crowd at downtown's Seelbach hotel, made famous as the site of Daisy and Tom's wedding in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. "We weren't Republican light. We weren't Democrat light. We were Democrats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Democrats Got Their Message Across | 11/9/2006 | See Source »

...close to call. The race for the G.O.P.-held seat is one of Florida's tightest. Democrat Keith Fitzgerald's slogan: "Go Fitz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Approved This Campaign Slogan | 10/30/2006 | See Source »

...other 17 members stand blankly on stage. I found myself wishing for some kind of background interaction, some unheard whisper or small gesture. Instead, the cast turned itself into a set piece.I was also surprised that the choreography (by Mimi B. Owusu ’07, Chrissy M. Fitzgerald ’07, and Megan M. Powell ’08) is so muted. “A Chorus Line” is, after all, a show about a dance audition. The cast’s technical abilities are clearly impressive–Katie Johnson’s in particular?...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Actors Kick Over Shortcomings in ‘Chorus Line’ | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

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