Word: rectorate
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...doughtiest soldiers of the modern world of ideological civil war is too obscurely defined in the U.S. ken. He is-or was-Don Miguel de Unamuno, twice rector of and twice expelled from the University of Salamanca,* who brought to recent letters a Spanish taste for macabre conundrums about death: "One day we shall all die, even the dead...
...creator, Cervantes. This kind of jugglery between the balloons of fiction and the cannonballs of fact made Unamuno an enigmatic figure-and in Catholic, reactionary Spain, a suspect and controversial one. In 1891, when he was 27, he became professor of Greek at Salamanca, and was appointed rector ten years later. He stoutly rejected any obligation to impose coherence on his thought and backed up his stand by the consistent inconsistency of his life. He translated Marxist books, tilted at the windmills of Spanish society, and at the same time, in his books engaged in what was essentially theological speculation...
...campus of Fordham University. In charge was handsome, energetic Msgr. Joseph F. Connolly. Working with him was young (29) Father Ivan Illich, Austrian-born Roman-trained linguist whose work among Manhattan Puerto Ricans was recently recognized by Francis Cardinal Spellman, who asked him to serve as vice rector of the Catholic University in San Juan. (The Cardinal also had 22 of the Diocese's newly ordained priests study Spanish at Georgetown University, sent eight New York priests to serve temporarily in Puerto Rico.) Cardinal Spellman, New York's Mayor Robert Wagner, San Juan's Mayoress de Gautier...
Five court justices unanimously upheld a previous court decision denying the anti-Melish forces a temporary injunction to restrain Melish from conducting services. Left waiting outside the church: the Rev. Dr. Herman S. Sidener, designated as Holy Trinity's new rector by Bishop James P. DeWolfe of Long Island...
...Zeckendorf, John Frederics (whose lace-crowned bridal veil Margaret wore), Italian Couturière Micol Fontana (who was commissioned to create the wedding gown because it was a Fontana dress Margaret was wearing one evening last November when she first met Daniel). The Rev. Patric Hutton, 30-year-old rector of the church, read the marriage ceremony, watched as Daniel slipped a plain gold band on his bride's finger...