Word: rector
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...service, Rev. John Spencer, rector ofthe Jesuit community of Boston, recalled Boswellas a devoted friend...
...have probably one of the most culturally diverse churches around," boasts Foxx, the rector of St. Bartholomew's . "They come from South America, Haiti, all of the islands in the Caribbean...
Retrenchment, however, seems to be precisely the idea. Conservatives contend that free food has done little to solve the problems plaguing the nation. "What does a hot school lunch offer to a 16-year-old girl who is pregnant?" asks Robert Rector, senior policy analyst for welfare issues at the Heritage Foundation. "What does a hot school lunch offer two 16-year-olds in D.C. who are shooting each other in the school halls with semiautomatic weapons? ... Go into any housing project and you don't see kids bent over with rickets. You see strong healthy young...
...time Louis Auchincloss came along to write such Jamesian, Whartonian novels of manners as The Rector of Justin and The Great World and Timothy Colt, the Society of Mrs. Astor's ballroom no longer meant much, except to itself. The European aristocracy that it had tried to emulate was moribund and more impoverished than ever, and in the U.S. there were simply too many circles of the rich and self-pleased -- in the oil and entertainment industries, in politics, in the media business, among wealthy alumni of Midwestern cow colleges, lately in the computer industry -- for any one social elite...
...being. We comfortably call him "O.J.," even though we've never met him, because in our mind he's a friend. Even if convicted of murder, he'll never be an abstract symbol of evil like the typical death-penalty customer with three names -- Robert Alton Harris, Rickey ; Ray Rector, John Wayne Gacy et al. For once, in the competition of humanization between the murderer and his victims, the murderer would have an unbeatable edge...