Word: lifelong
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...many consider Catholics idolaters, the adult catechumen class at St. Mary's in Greenville, site of conservative Protestant Bob Jones University, has leapt to more than 60 members from a minuscule number a few years ago, according to Newman, who converted from Protestantism in 1982. Beth Burgess, 42, a lifelong Presbyterian, is converting despite the open disapproval of her parents. She feels she needs a deeper "historical perspective of faith," a sense of what the Catholic Church's "1st century fathers believed." She may end up playing a larger role than she imagined in how 21st century Catholics believe. --With...
...back in 1994 after the unexpected death of Labour leader John Smith. Brown and Blair, rising stars on the modernizing wing of the party, recognized that they risked splitting that vote and ushering in an "old Labour" leader if both went for the top job. Brown, a natural and lifelong party member, was in some ways the more obvious candidate. But he was persuaded that Blair's amiable style might win over middle-class voters more easily than his own brooding substance. Brown is said to believe that a deal was struck with Blair over dinner at Granita, a north...
...young Pierre-Francios dreams of his ancestors and of a character called The King of the World. Suddenly he feels permanently changed. As he becomes disillusioned with "doctors who can't heal" and "parents who know nothing," he seeks solace in the world of dreams, leading to a lifelong obsession. Excerpting various entries from his dream journal, Beauchard turns "Babel" into an explication of the birth of his interest in art as a way to give form to his nocturnal imaginings...
...incidentally, she also wrote about the Beatles and Godzilla. Seriousness was one of Sontag's lifelong watchwords, but what she sometimes dared to take seriously were matters that educated opinion, as it emerged from the cramped quarters of the 1950s, dismissed as trivia. At a time when the barriers between high- and lowbrow were absolute, she argued for a genuine openness to the pleasures of pop culture. In "Notes on Camp," the 1964 essay that first made her name, she defined what was then a little-known set of arcane understandings--common within the gay world, not so common outside...
...position she partly repudiated two years ago in another book, Regarding the Pain of Others. In fact, re-examining old positions was a lifelong habit. In 1968, after a trip to Hanoi, she produced an essay that struggled to approve the bland totalitarianism of the North Vietnamese leadership. But 14 years later she was announcing that communism was "fascism with a human face," a statement that she had the courage to make before a left-wing crowd. Courage was never a problem for her. In the days right after 9/11 she created an uproar when she wrote...