Word: monasticism
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Chattel to Partner. Yet obstacles to full ecclesiastical equality for women still exist throughout a large part of Christendom. Eastern Orthodoxy, retaining its Middle Eastern traditions, is perhaps the slowest to accept women as equals. Women are completely barred, for instance, from even setting foot on the monastic peninsula of...
(2 of 10) Rubenstein of Chicago's Roosevelt University: "It might be easy in a mechanical way to screw up the system?forcing the airlines to spend millions on armed guards, or to mess up the electrical or telephone systems. But what's wrong with the new terror is that...
The anonymous scientist, who is a bachelor, had been living and working for weeks at a time on a remote island; no women were on hand to distract him. In these monastic circumstances, he soon noticed an intriguing phenomenon: his beard was growing less rapidly than normal. Furthermore, on the...
Harry Blackmun did not make a deep impression on Harvard while he was here. Very few of his contemporaries even remember him, and those who do are suprised when they heard of his nomination. The reaction of one of his classmates, a New York businessman, is typical: "He was a...
Such monastic concentration suggests that Doubell, a systems analyst for Shell of Australia, is Ralph the Robot. Far from it. Decked out in an antelope suede jacket, black hip-hugging bell-bottoms and tan suede shoes, he is more Ralph the Rapscallion, enjoying "the usual recreations of a young man...