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...reader agrees, and is inclined to root for Ruth who wants to save her marriage. He is also inclined to reflect on what appear to be similar- ities between Jerry and Updike himself: that galloping insomnia, for instance. Like Updike's own recently divorced wife, Ruth is a Unitarian minister's daughter. Like Updike and his wife, Ruth and Richard once went to art school together: "Cadmium yellow danced boldly through her pears," Updike reports. "His gift was for line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uncouples | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

Last night, George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, and Mathew S. Meselson, chairman of the Biochemistry Department, debated the risks and merits of the proposed containment laboratory for recombinant DNA research before 500 people at the Cambridge Unitarian Church...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff and Anthony Y. Strike, S | Title: Council Extends DNA Experiment Ban; Wald, Meselson Debate Gene Research | 9/30/1976 | See Source »

...King is traditionally immune from such criticism-and says that "our brave American fellow-subjects are not yet corrupted, but gloriously stand up in defense of their undoubted rights and liberties." In a pamphlet that has sold 60,000 copies, an almost unheard-of number, Dr. Richard Price, a Unitarian minister, bluntly argues the Colonists' case: "What have they done? Have they crossed the ocean and invaded us? ... On the contrary. This is what we have done to them ... And yet it is we who imagine ourselves ill used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Aggressive King, Divided Nation | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

Jonathan Beckwith, professor of microbiology and molecular genetics at the Medical School, said at a forum in the First Unitarian Church that despite the disclaimers of Edward O. Wilson, professor of Zoology, his book "Sociobiology" uses genetics to defend sexism and other discriminating behavior in modern society...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Professors Say 'Sociobiology' Defends Status Quo | 3/25/1976 | See Source »

Irons was brought up as a Unitarian, but in the letter he declared himself an agnostic. This was before the Supreme Court ruled that men could be conscientious objectors without belief in a supreme being, and while that decision came down between Irons's conviction and appeal, the appeals court ruled not to grant him a chance to reapply for C.O. status...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Out of Irons, Into the Dock | 12/12/1975 | See Source »

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