Word: hares
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brothers," announced Presiding Bishop John Maury Allin of the U.S. Episcopal Church, "the issue before us is not the ordination of women to the priesthood." What was in question last week, at a hastily convened meeting at Chicago's O'Hare International Tower hotel, was the good order and discipline of the Episcopal Church. For an emergency session of the church's House of Bishops, 150 prelates had assembled to discuss what to do about an extraordinary breach of canon law in the 3.1 million member denomination: the ordination of eleven women as priests last month...
...this enveloping character of metamorphic fantasy that Miró responded. A painting like Landscape (The Hare) is its reduction: the horizon line drawn clean as a wire, yet with an irrational undular flourish; the absurd and soulful hare, like a creature from a comic strip. Its gaze is fixed on what appears to be a rifle ball, ricocheting in a spiral from the gun of a disembodied hunter. The color, too, is unique - the broad planes of earth and sky like a flag, interspersed by echoing flecks of red, or ange and yellow on the body of the hare...
...immediate than the prospect of another ice age. Even if temperature and rainfall patterns change only slightly in the near future in one or more of the three major grain-exporting countries-the U.S., Canada and Australia -global food stores would be sharply reduced. University of Toronto Climatologist Kenneth Hare, a former president of the Royal Meteorological Society, believes that the continuing drought and the recent failure of the Russian harvest gave the world a grim premonition of what might happen. Warns Hare: "I don't believe that the world's present population is sustainable if there...
...Irish-dominated fire department to minority hiring and promotion; and the indictment of the mayor's former director of public relations, Earl Bush, on charges of mail fraud in connection with his secret ownership of a company that operated the display advertising concession at city-owned O'Hare Airport...
...Singer-Songwriter Martin Mull is the only newcomer who is literally a rock comic, laying his words on music. His hit record is in fact an instrumental called Dueling Tubas. His other folk-rock ditties include Ventriloquist Love ("Whenever I kiss you, your lips never move") and the ultimate Hare Krishna lover's gambit: "I made love to you in a former life...