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...added, "The Physics Department is Der Spiegel Biology, because it confuses excellence with things German in the same manner as people who buy Der Spiegel from Out of Town News, although admittedly with less unction...
...Harvard is merely a thinly Americanized version of what is called Sociology in Britain--"Channel 2" Sociology, one might say, since it confuses excellence with things British in the same manner that the television programmers of Channel 2's Sunday night fare routinely do, though, admittedly, with less unction...
...sons supported her decision, but some friends urged that she battle on. "They said, 'Go for it at all costs,' but I had seen my father, my mother and several friends go through this." She preferred to stay at home to die, and summoned her Episcopal priest to administer unction. Nolan hopes she will leave a message for those considering decisions like hers. "I wish people wouldn't be frightened about knowing what they're up against. To have a part in my treatment has been so important. I'm part of the team...
Having received extreme unction from a Catholic priest in Houston, Texas, Matilde asks her friend Ada Luz to ensure that one of the "revolutionary priests from the slums" say mass upon her death. Such wishes, however, conflict with the desires of the communist party, which, under the direction of Lisboa, wants to turn the funeral into a leftist manifestation of power without competition from the Church...
...later put her and her older sister in a Catholic convent school, and she learned at the age of six that he had suddenly died of ptomaine poisoning. Convent life was benign but austere. Three winters in a row she suffered pneumonia so severe that a priest administered Extreme Unction...