Word: reverend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wally Stuttaford, 64, a grandfatherly Member of Parliament, on suspicion of having plotted a coup against the government. A 24-year-old Dutch-born auto mechanic was detained in Salisbury and later deported simply for drawing mustaches and horns on posters of Mugabe and Zimbabwe's President, the Reverend Canaan Banana. In addition, whites complain that groups of tourists have been roughed up by soldiers-in one instance, for stumbling into an area reserved for North Korean advisers, who were imported by Mugabe to train Zimbabwean security forces...
...lace, When construction begins on University Place. Deane Lord and Al Alcorn strong stories will find, Freeing their Gazette from its once-a-week bind. And as for Sally Z., the tenant's best friend, We can't grant her wish and let rent control end. The good Reverend Gomes (the Configuide's star), May daub local sinners with feathers and tar. We doubt it, though; he's an awfully nice guy, Far nicer, for instance, than many alumni--Like Caspar Weinberger and Henry the K, One wants more tanks, the other more...
...some hilarious set pieces. Nanda's group make their First Communion with students at the associated "poor school." Hurriedly helping one of these girls with her veil, a nun drives a safety pin through the child's ear. For the Lippington girls it is a lesson. Says Reverend Mother: "The poor little girl was in great pain, but she thought it was part of the ceremony, and ... thought of the terrible suffering of Our Lord in wearing His crown of thorns. She might have gone about all day with that...
...novel she is writing. It is intended as a heroic celebration of God, with sundry evildoers redeemed at the climax by divine power. Alas, the manuscript, nowhere near completion, is found by a nun during a routine snoop through desks. Nanda's tearful pleas are in vain. Says Reverend Mother: "I have watched something growing in you-a hard little core of self-will and self-love." The gates clang shut...
Down on Memorial Drive, in the parking lot of an abandoned plant store, they're saving souls. Reverend Ezra has set up a tent, and in the heat of the evening he's hard at the work of the Lord. The members of his flock fan themselves with their programs, but he's just warming up. Finishing the call to worship, he launches into his sermon with a great whirling of arms and stamping of feet. It's a story of good men gone bad and bad men gone good, and others who stayed that way. The drug dealer with...