Word: roman
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...story that spans nearly the entire 20th century and sees the Federal District emerge from drowsy Southern town into frenetic center of world power. "Just, a Washington journalist in the early ?60s, writes from experience," says TIME's R.Z. Sheppard. "But there is no master clef to this roman. Protagonist Axel Behl reads like a composite rather than a copy. He has spent more than half his years in chronic pain caused by wounds suffered during World War II. His marriage to Sylvia, a wellborn New Yorker and poet, was a mismatch. Her parting shot before leaving is that Axel...
Jasmin S. Roman '00 began dancing with the club early during her first year...
...conservative Roman Catholic, I had a preconceived idea about how I would react to your report on DeGeneres and others who live a gay life-style. However, my reading of the superbly objective article, coupled with the knowledge that God showers limitless love equally on all humankind, made me realize that obligations are placed on us to offer more love to all God's creations and try to understand the uniqueness God intended. HENRY T. DOHERTY Miami...
Every family has its skeletons in the closet. Every man has his weakness. For some it is lasagna, for others it is all things chocolate. My downfall is frozen dairy products. Ice cream is my favorite food group. It is to me as ambrosia was to the Roman deities. Had I been Eve, man would never have been evicted from the Garden of Eden. Fruit doesn't do anything for me. However, had the snake tempted me with an ice cream sundae, I would have been a goner--even if the Garden had had a polar address...
APPOINTED. FRANCIS GEORGE, 60, doctrinally conservative but socially progressive Roman Catholic prelate; as Archbishop of Chicago, by Pope John Paul II; in Vatican City. A Chicago native, George is a relative newcomer to episcopacy, having served for a year as Archbishop of Portland, Oregon, and six years as Bishop of Yakima,Washington...