Word: rectorate
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...wino. Along with looking after Mama and completing the process of growing up, Josh has some special problems of his own. Change Lopez, the meanest pachuquito in town, threatens to castrate him; an assignation becomes an embarrassing flop; and he can't decide whether he loves the Episcopal rector's daughter or the gardener's. Eventually, like Huck Finn, Penrod and Holden Caulfield, all of whom he resembles, Josh painfully squirms through the gap in the hedge that separates adolescence from manhood...
While Harvard's blacks stressed their estrangement from the rest of the University by boycotting the official memorial service for King, the rector of Roxbury's St. Cyprians Church made a deeper impression on the 1200 whites inside Memorial Church with a harshly-worded eulogy...
...level of Polish life, the purges of the last few weeks continued and even intensified. With no explanation, the government shifted three more key generals to new commands. Also dismissed from their posts were a Catholic Deputy in Parliament who had protested police action during the student riots, the rector of Lodz University, Marxist Philosopher Adam Schaff, three junior ministers, a vice minister and the editor of the Yiddish newspaper Folksstyme. Their firing brought to 36 the number of top officials so far known to have been purged...
...Energy Agency in Vienna. Without explanation, it relieved three top-ranking generals, including the head of the vast Warsaw Military District, of their troop commands and consigned them to out-of-the-way desk jobs. It dropped an Olympics official in the department of state sports and dismissed the rector and deputy rector, both Jews, of the Lodz State College of Theater and Film, which has produced such directors as Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water) and Jerry Skolimowski (Le Depart). While the purges gained momentum in Warsaw, there were reports from provincial cities of sweeping dismissals also in progress...
...students as a whole seem as dangerously irrepressible as ever. Many universities were rimmed with police guards, and the atmosphere at Warsaw University became so threatening that the rector closed it for a day. A group of 200 students decided to meet there anyway, and broke into a lecture hall to pass resolutions demanding reinstatement for the fired professors and military discharges for the drafted students. If they have not received satisfaction by the end of Easter vacation, warned the leaders, they will put out a call for a general strike at all Polish universities...