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...breakups are alike, and Beach's split with St. Alban's has its singular aspects. (There was no squabble over common assets, for one thing.) But it may also be predictive. In electing the Rev. V. Gene Robinson, an actively gay man, as a bishop in 2003, the Episcopal Church U.S.A. placed itself at the excruciating center of American mainline Christianity's struggles over homosexuality and at odds with much of the international Anglican Communion to which it belongs. In mid-October the communion will publish a task-force report expected to address the effect of Robinson's election...
That single seed, rooted in Roth's singular imagination, grew into an entire alternative world. The Plot Against America is set in a shadow country that never was, an America in which Lindbergh, an isolationist in real life, defeated Franklin Delano Roosevelt to become the 33rd President of the United States of America. Armed with that premise, Roth takes readers on a harrowing safari across interdimensional borders into a bizarro version of his hometown, mid-century Newark, N.J., where we encounter Roth's own family and Roth himself as a child, living under the Lindbergh Administration. "My little rubric that...
What is more, the word is inappropriately and significantly treated as a singular form, such as in the statement that “the media has a liberal bias.” The idea that “the media” is a single entity is borne to us through the vector of language. If we were concentrating, would we really choose to refer to the totality of mass communication as if it were guided by a single will? Perhaps current usage of “the media” (sing.) is a symptom of the trend towards nation...
...armed foursome farewell Turnagain; the FFV, or another one, is likely to be back here within days - as will an ACV tender crew. In the warm night air, Radon and Normile can detect what they have come to know as the singular odor of an FFV; rancid on the nose, with a strong blood and slime character, offering hints of diesel and clove cigarettes. "They're still out here," Radon says to the others, as the tender rough-rides it back to the ACV. The crew express no animosity toward the elusive Indonesians. "They're not wearing gold chains...
Every summer, style setters from Malibu to Montauk tend to obsess over a singular fashion item. This season the must-have look is the poncho--preferably in a loose wool knit with funky fringe (never mind that it's 90 outside). Designers like Michael Kors featured them for fall, left, and celebs like Keira Knightley have already been spotted sporting the '70s style. All that's missing are the moccasins. --By Kate Betts