Word: prefereable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both Papafrangos and Booth prefer the rooming arrangements in the Quad Houses to those at the Yard and River. "Corridor life is really great. It's much better than entries," Papafrangos feels. "When you live in entries, you have to make a conscious effort to visit other people. On a corridor, you just wander down the hall into someone's room. It's much closer, like a family," she adds...
Germany's Schmidt publicly committed himself to a 5% annual rate of economic growth, even if it requires stimulating his economy a bit more than he would prefer. Most of the other leaders had been pressing a reluctant Schmidt to do more to help world economic recovery...
Lord Snowdon would prefer to be known as a photographer rather than as the man who had such a tough go of it with Princess Margaret. Over the years, Rudolf Nureyev has been one of his most fascinating subjects, so when Gentlemen's Quarterly asked him to photograph Nureyev on the set of Valentino, Snowdon enthusiastically complied. Recalls Nureyev: "For three days of filming he followed us, from the makeup session at 6 a.m. until the end of the shooting. He virtually sank into the background with the technicians and cameramen." More to Snowdon's liking, it seems...
...bishops also came close to endorsing a much-disputed liturgical change advocated by A Call to Action: letting worshipers receive the Communion wafer in the hand instead of on the tongue if they prefer. If enough additional bishops endorse the change in a mail ballot, the proposal will go to the Vatican for final approval. Many conservatives are deeply upset about the new practice, which they consider irreverent. John Cardinal Carberry of St. Louis even warned that wafers might be taken and used in satanic masses...
...learn, for instance, that the Chicago apartment of Ebony Publisher John H. Johnson has walls of leather, floors of petrified wood and a Jacuzzi whirlpool in every bathroom. Such ostentation, we are told, is frowned upon by the black old guard, who prefer the quiet good taste of Sag Harbor summer houses and Episcopal church services. That the black rich unbridgeably divide themselves into old and new money seems to come as a surprise to Birmingham, whose naivete in such matters -whether real or feigned-quickly becomes cloying. After ten years of traveling among a growing list of ethnic elites...