Word: theodora
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...Theodora H. Smith...
This combination of demonic and domestic is apt, since Le Gum, 50, has spent much of her life successfully balancing the two. The only daughter of Anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber, Ursula grew up in a lively intellectual home. Her three older brothers all became college professors, and her mother Theodora wrote nonfiction books, chiefly on the American Indian. The little girl turned into an avid reader and writer; her tastes in both ran to the exotic or bizarre. The first story she can remember completing told of a man who was eaten by elves. As her manuscripts began piling...
Gore Vidal cannot wait. His latest novel is an apocalyptical extravaganza that craftily combines feminism, homosexuality, mysticism, science fiction, fiction science, the second law of thermodynamics, the first law of survival, high fashion and low animal cunning. The plot is diabolically clever. Theodora (Teddy) Ottinger, the world's leading female pilot and bisexual author of the bestselling Beyond Motherhood, stumbles into the service of Jim Kelly, a golden-haired Viet Nam vet who fancies himself Kalki, the Hindu god whose job it is to ring down the curtain on the material universe. Teddy needs the money; she is behind...
...disappearance of the old Latin Tridentine Mass. (In fact, it is still celebrated - illicitly - by a few rebel priests, like Father Gommar De Pauw of Westbury, N.Y.) Some Catholics find the new rite too cluttered with movement, hymns and communal prayers. "I feel a little bit lost," says Mrs. Theodora Nardi, 53, of Manchester, N.H. "I miss the time for silent prayer. Now you jump and sing...
Most of the Concord Building's present tenants came in the early days of the Wyner Trust. Raia moved there in 1950; Marguerite Fuller bought the Betty Lee Beauty Shop in 1954; and John and Theodora Marston bought the Darling Secretarial Service in 1948. The Marstons are, in fact, the building's senior tenants now, although they like to defer that honor to Jimmy Quinn on the grounds that he is second-generation...