Word: reunioner
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...small, red-carpeted sanctuary of Bethel Presbyterian Church in Walterboro. The issue under consideration there and at similar gatherings across the South: whether to end the Presbyterians' own North-South schism, which dates from the Civil War. After an hour of genteel debate, the Walterboro meeting voted for reunion...
...denominations voting on reunion are the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (P.C.U.S.), most of whose 829,000 members live in the South, and the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (U.P.C.U.S.A.), which has 2.4 million members nationwide. The so-called Northern branch has long wanted to unite with the Southern, and not one of its presbyteries (regional groupings of local churches) has voted no so far. Under the Southern church's constitution, a negative vote by only 16 of the 61 presbyteries would kill the merger. But the narrow approval in Walterboro last week raised the Southern Presbyterian vote...
...dean of Harvard's School of Dental Medicine attended the traditional Commencement Week alumni outing, expecting to perform his usual ceremonial duties: to greet the 25-year and 50-year reunion classes...
...that we didn't have the great national diversity that there is now. We'd be going head-to-head with some of our good friends we'd grown up with. After the tournament, we'd always go out and celebrate. Now, it's like a reunion, seeing all those guys again...
...sexual ambiguities surrounding her character--the only one of the characters to have changed during the past 20 years. Although she doesn't come into the movie until the plot has been underway for quite some time, Black's Joann breaks the trance-like spell that pervades the reunion; she forces cruel reality to enter into the plot as her character causes the later revelations of Cissy and Mona to occur. The information she reveals undermines everyone's position and tests the fervor of their characters...