Word: rectorate
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...Godwin's 10th novel, Evensong (Ballantine; 405 pages; $25), is set in the very near future indeed, specifically the waning weeks of 1999. Millennial fever has reached even the idyllic and remote Smoky Mountain town of High Balsam, N.C. (winter pop. 1,000), where Margaret Bonner, 33, serves as rector of All Saints Episcopal Church. "Winter in the Great Smokies would shortly be upon us," Margaret says at the outset of her tale, "the winter that would see us into the next century and the new millennium. Other things were on their way to us as well, things we neither...
...habit, for example, of quoting everyone else's fulsome praise of her: "Oh, Margaret, what a great, great story... You say such wise things, Margaret...You're an extraordinary young woman, Margaret." Isn't Margaret a wee bit full of herself? And what to make of this rector's loving inventories of the riches of her church, "the Elsa Van Wyck Memorial Ciborium with Van's grandmother's diamonds and garnets encrusted in the base, and the Georgian silver thurible...
...John J. Rector `99 and Elvira G. DiFabio, senior preceptor in Romance languages and literatures, organized the event...
That game began a tradition for the younger Sedgwick, who will attend his 60th Harvard-Yale game tomorrow. He's been to The Game every year except for 1948-57 when he was rector of a church in Washington...
Some, however, see a freeloader factor at work. Robert Rector, who follows hunger issues for the Heritage Foundation, says, "As long as you are providing aid without requiring anything in return, the demand of that aid will be inexhaustible." Nevertheless, at least one food-bank manager believes the increased demand is just part of the adjustment that must occur as welfare reform takes hold, a necessary transition to better times. Parke Hinman, who runs a food bank in Montgomery, Ala., has seen demand rise to include families with wage earners. But, he says, "if we can provide them food...