Word: lifelong
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...part, Sullivan may be doing more than any of his colleagues to expand the organization beyond its Brattle St. roots and elitist reputation. His last campaign was a coalition triumph--he won with votes from tenant activists, CCA regulars and elderly voters pried from a lifelong habit of voting for Independents by their fear of condominium conversion. "The initials CCA strike fear into too many hearts in this city to make me think that the CCA per se will ever make major inroads" into building a new coalition, Sullivan says. "My hope is that someday there could be a forum...
...Reformation; John Calvin was its thunder. John was only eight in 1517 when the 95 theses were nailed up on a Wittenberg church door. Within 30 years he would rise to succeed Luther as leader of the Reformation, codifying what the master often conveyed with rhetoric. Calvin's lifelong opus, Institutes of the Christian Religion, as he boasts in this vigorous biographical novel, grew to be as long as ''the Old Testament plus a good part...
...Maugham's character and behavior. Young Willie spent his first ten years in France, until he was orphaned and sent to Kent to live with an aunt and clergyman uncle. Suffering from the cultural bends and deeply scarred by the death of his mother, Maugham acquired a lifelong stammer and a taste for masochistic relationships. "I have never experienced the bliss of requited Slove," he once wrote. "I have most Sieved people who cared little or nothing for me and when people have loved me I have been embarrassed." His marriage in 1917 to Syrie Wellcome...
DIED. Baroness Edith Summer skill, 78, feisty former chairman of Britain's Labor Party (1954-55) and lifelong women's rights advocate; of a heart attack; in London. A practicing physician, Summerskill won a seat in Parliament in 1938 and shocked fellow M.P.s by insisting on retaining her maiden name. Though she lost her campaign to have housewives paid for their domestic labors, she won legislative battles to ensure women equal status with their husbands in property rights and other financial matters...
...result is a breathless blend of thrills ("Murder by Cancer-A Bizarre Plot That Killed 2 and Doomed 3 Others"), chills ("CHiPs Star Erik Estrada: I Left My Body After My Motorcycle Crash") and practical, if occasionally farfetched, advice ("Secret of Lifelong Youth Discovered, Claims Scientist"). Most celebrities get good-guy treatment-young actors on the rise and show-biz legends like Bob Hope are particular favorites -but the paper is always on the lookout for a sharp edge. Burnett, whose lawsuit is scheduled to go to trial next month, disputes an article that had her arguing loudly with Henry...