Word: grahams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Celebrity bashes are not the Kremlin's forte, but last week's coming- out party for Mikhail Gorbachev was worthy of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. The stars that shone at the glamorous gala ranged from literature (Graham Greene) through economics (John Kenneth Galbraith) to fashion (Pierre Cardin). The only common denominator seemed to be that the guests had world-size reputations and were willing to give a polite hearing to the Kremlin's pitch for peace...
...women's holding authority over men. But the most determined opposition has come from the High Church, or Anglo-Catholic wing, which is close to Roman Catholicism in many of its beliefs, traditions and rituals. The focus for this resistance is the outspoken Bishop of London, the Rt. Rev. Graham Leonard, 65. Anglo-Catholics concur with Roman Catholic teaching that creating women priests would violate the intentions of Jesus Christ and would deviate from an unbroken church practice of ordaining only men. Bishop Leonard has collected 18,000 signatures from conservative Anglicans, some of whom say they might follow...
...sought to become Britain's leading rock revivalist while modestly updating his sound to fit the times. In the late 1970s, he souped up his version of 1950s American rockabilly and became a leader of the "Angry Young Man" movement that made famous such British pub-rockers as Costello, Graham Parker, Joe Jackson and Nick Lowe. In the 1980s, he has even attempted, with varying degrees of success, to graft synthesizers onto his otherwise backward-looking music...
...essential problem with Mr. Graham's argument is that he feels such matters of expediency and pleasantry should outweigh considerations of justice. formalized procedures may indeed create problems, and they may seed an unnecessary burden to administrators and faculty members who claim that they are already pressed for time. In truth, however, thing are the other way around, and expediency must give way to justice...
...committee will also include the Honorable Ruth Abrahms, a Massachusetts Supreme Court justice; Graham Gund, a key developer in the city; Eliot Spauldino, former editor of the Cambridge Chronicle and William Sullivan, the mayor...