Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...please don't sneer, you Harvard Square Cultural Elitists, you snobs who hissed violently at the TV commercials, who rolled your eyes when your pre-adolescent sister begged you to take her to Cocktail...
Women on the left in effect ratify Little's worst fears, asserting that the church is at the beginning of massive disruption. Sister Anne E. Patrick of Carleton College in Minnesota says that "we're dealing with cultural change on the scale of the 1st century, when Gentiles entered the Christian faith without adopting Jewish practices." Similarly, Rosemary Radford Ruether, a radical Catholic who teaches at a Methodist seminary in Illinois, says the church could be facing its most intense conflict in centuries. As she sees it, the choice is between "genuine transformation into an open community" and "retrenchment...
...coffee to our editorial staff at the 1976 political conventions in Kansas City and New York. Today, as our new general manager, Greg shares responsibility for everything from overseeing the magazine's budget to taking the hassle out of office moves. He arrives from a similar position at our sister publication Fortune, where he was known for his keen sense of judgment and sure grasp of even the smallest business details. On the lighter side, Greg has earned a reputation for showing up fresh on mornings after late-night meetings and socializing, when everyone else was bleary eyed...
Dalma Heyn's study of unfaithful wives begins promisingly with a startling canvass of literature's most famous adulteresses. From Anna Karenina to Emma Bovary, the cheating woman pays a steep price for her unchecked sexuality: she winds up dead. "What if she were your best friend, or your sister?" Heyn challenges. "Would you still need to see her punished?" Heyn, it seems in her opening pages, is going to vivisect the biases that continue to hold women to a different sexual standard from men. Oh boy, I think with post-Murphy Brown glee. Dan Quayle is going to hate...
...Anyone with a real royal connection never speaks to reporters, simply because doing so means instant and permanent ostracism at court. But Diana's late father Earl Spencer, always appealingly proud of his little girl and avid for personal attention, contributed dozens of unpublished pictures. Her brother and a sister apparently spoke to Morton, as did an ex- roommate, Carolyn Bartholomew, and a couple of her buddies. Buckingham Palace at once snapped that the princess in no way cooperated with the book...