Word: georgetown
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...confirmed bachelor who looks a bit like Bert Lahr's Cowardly Lion, McGowan lived in rented apartments for most of his life, but four years ago he bought a house in Georgetown and converted it into a revealing kind of private playland. Pushbuttons control all manner of gadgets: lighting panels on every floor, a laser-disk stereo system that can be turned on by infrared signals from any room. And in the back patio, a Jacuzzi whirlpool bath stands surrounded by fake boulders. McGowan admired the props in the polar bear cage at the National Zoo and ordered some...
...quintessential Reagan-era Power Party was thrown last week at the Georgetown home of Joseph Canzeri, a former presidential scheduler who now runs a public relations concern. Delayed slightly by the Washington Redskins' 29-27 win over the St. Louis Cardinals (occasionally even power rituals are only the second most interesting game in town), Canzeri's Venetian-style Christmas fete attracted a classic "interesting Washington mix": diplomats (Nepalese Ambassador Bhekh Thapa), members of Congress (Senators John Tower and Sam Nunn), name journalists (Columnist Mary McGrory), plus the Reaganaut social front line (Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese and Wife Ursula...
...also a longtime supporter of the Georgetown University Hovas, the defending national champs in basketball. "Even before they were good...
Some Catholic thinkers are unpersuaded. Noted West German Theologian Father Bernard Häring has argued that biological functions, far from being "untouchable," must be "subordinated to the good of the whole person and marriage itself." Jesuit Richard McCormick of Georgetown University claims "a lot of bishops believe you can't find the arguments to sustain papal teaching." Father Charles Curran of the Catholic University of America doubts that the ban is based on good reasoning, concluding that "faith and reason cannot contradict one another." Curran and McCormick think that the Pope may crack down on dissident priests...
There was the expected debunking of the Republican candidate in Cambridge and New Haven, in the newsrooms of the big liberal papers, in the salons of trendy Georgetown. But what startled in the final weeks was the paroxysm of complaint against the voters, who, despite all the entreaties from these learned folks, made up their minds in impressive numbers to back President Reagan. For years these same voters had been praised and pumped up by overpaid TV commentators and underpaid instructors of political science as the most informed and best-educated and therefore the wisest electorate in the world. This...