Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...logical absurdities which Anglicanism gets itself into these days. Elizabeth, as "head of the church," cannot officially disprove of Margaret's marriage to a divorced man (presumably because such marriages violate the law of God), although, according to other Anglican authorities, she might approve of it as "big sister" (presumably because such marriages do not violate the law of God). Nor, in this same anomalous situation, can the Archbishop of Canterbury approve the marriage (presumably because such marriages violate the law of God), even though he man "readmit her to Communion after a decent interval" (presumably because such marriages...
...Reader Gorton is right; Miss Forman is also a sister of the Archbishop's wife. (see cuts...
...those years, Chiang took to wife the beautiful Mei-ling of the famed Soong sisters (one sister was the widow of Sun Yatsen, another the wife of Financier H. H. Kung, longtime member of Chiang's Cabinet). Chiang was a revolutionist of unity, not upset. His mission was to weld a nation out of many pieces, not to overthrow a monolithic government in the name of individual liberty. Dr. Sun Yat-sen used to argue that, unlike Europe, China had not too little but too much liberty without organization, "and we have become a heap of sand." What...
...Walled Town. This is the life of Mary, the cloistered life the world does not see, and it is part of the plan of Maryknoll that its busy Martha body recognizes its dependence on what the sisters call the convent's "hidden heart." For the apparent separation (and even conflict) between activity and adoration that seems to bifurcate Christianity is not real. Many great figures of the church, beginning with St. Paul, have combined both elements without conflict. "Laborare est orare," said St. Benedict (work is prayer). The Maryknoll sister hacking a kitchen garden out of the Bolivian jungle...
Born. To Peter Lawford, 31, London-born cinema and TV actor (It Should Happen to You, Dear Phoebe), and Patricia Kennedy, 30, daughter of onetime U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Joseph P. Kennedy and younger sister of John F. Kennedy, junior Democratic Senator from Massachusetts: their first child, a son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Christopher. Weight...