Word: homesickness
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...Ever since I became a bishop 20 years ago, I have been homesick for a pulpit," says Bishop Gerald Kennedy, 61, who presides over his church's 262,000-member Southern California-Arizona conference. Kennedy will now have his own flock to tend in addition to his administrative duties. He is taking over the 2,900-member First United Methodist Church in Pasadena, marking the first time an active bishop of the Methodist Church has also led a local congregation. "The local church is the front line, and a bishop needs to be where the action is," says...
...band of the Coldstream Guards; it can arrange a 1,000-guest party or a richly refined funeral. The store's export department, which grossed over $7 million last year, has sent gooseberries to Saudi Arabia, fresh flowers for a wedding in Nigeria and smoked kippers to a homesick Englishman in Ceylon...
Remember that in the beginning of his movie Dylan is flashing the words to Subterranian Homesick Blues on the screen. In the middle, he throws in "Dig Yourself." That's what Dylan is always trying to tell us, and the song is about what a hard time he has trying to help other people he's responsible for Saint Augustine on the new album is responsible for everyone. Staying alive is the struggle of the necessary cooperation of people to provide for themselves. You've got to work with other people. Saint Augustine expands the common struggle people share...
Haughty, dandified Eberlin (Laurence Harvey) is outwardly a London snob and secretly a top British agent. He is also a Russian assassin named Krasnevin who for 18 years has been knocking off other British agents as he knocks down a smashing double salary. Homesick, he begs his Red superiors to let him quit. Nyet: he must go on. And his job is getting tougher all the time. His British bosses have got wind of Krasnevin's existence-though they don't know what he looks like-and they want him expunged. As just...
...chaos. That is no revelation. Neither is it his prophetic nightmare. There are all these facts, you see: Johnny in the basement, medicine, pavement, a man in a trenchcoat, parking meters, vandals and handles. They are real. They make sense. All right, put them together. Metallic, impenetrable chaos. Subterranean Homesick Blues. Don't string the facts from the clothes line pole of conventional conceptions, don't order them with pliers of cause and effect. Just put them together--and they'll scare you. His experiment suggests how easy it is to let out ragged wild, numb wild thoughts, how close...