Word: ruth
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Ordination tops the list of specific issues simply because "all major decision making is done by bishops," notes Ruth Fitzpatrick of Fairfax, Va., coordinator of the WOC. She sees grass-roots protest mushrooming. "We're watching the inward collapse of the whole patriarchal structure of the Catholic Church." Another radical, Sister Maureen Fielder of Catholics Speak Out in Mount Rainier, Md., reports that hundreds of groups of Catholics shun church-as-usual. "I know plenty of women who get together and celebrate the Eucharist together," she says...
ALBUM: JOSHUA JUDGES RUTH...
...Joshua Judges Ruth, the weirdness is harder to laugh off. The lyrics are gaunt and elusive, the melodies so familiar as to be generic, the arrangements as spare and naked as the sentiments. The album's intertwined themes are keyed in its title: three books from the Old Testament -- the all-time best seller of wrath and reconciliation -- that pun on a man's need to pass stern judgment on women...
...members of the Institute of Medicine are: William Hsiao, professor of health systems economics; Stuart Orkin, Fikes professor of pediatric medicine; Ruth Sager, professor of cellular genetics emeritus; Clement Sledge, Brown professor of orthopedic surgery; and Nicholas Zervas, Higgins professor of neurosurgery...
...Ruth's parents abandoned him to a Roman Catholic industrial school specializing in "incorrigible" boys when he was an oversize, undereducated kid, and he went right from it into baseball. In other words, he was adapted only to heavily masculine, institutional worlds, and then solely as show-off, big spender and clown. His first marriage, to a homebody (played here with spunky charm by Trini Alvarado), was a disaster; the only family that counted with him was the team and the raffish demimonde it inhabited off the field. Ruth fared better the second time around. Claire Ruth (Kelly McGillis...