Word: unitarian
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...night, the FBI agents with felt hats and over coats would cross the street from the Common and stand in front of the church. They'd stand by the entrance to the meeting room downstairs and aim umbrellas to you and take your picture, click. The women in the Unitarian church made dinner and about a hundred people ate together off paper plates...
When China Altman and George Blakely Rogers married recently in Boston, they accepted the offer of an old friend to be their "paraclete," or special adviser and supporter of their union. Half a dozen lines were written into the Unitarian ceremony, formally requesting the friend to accept his uncommon role. "Many young people no longer look to their parents for assistance and advice," explains China. "To do so is often too emotionally complicated. We look instead to our best friends. To have a friend promise to be the paraclete of your marriage makes all kinds of sense...
...course, there is a problem with all this. The Reserve Officers Training Corps is not the Anglican Church (or even the Unitarian Church), and it probably never has been. Also, Harvard did not explode last week. There were no buildings flying around and limbs and grass and heads. So why do we look for "unbearable pressures...
...hulking, ruddy-faced Michigander with a gift for promotion, Hannah was born in Grand Rapids, the son of a Unitarian poultryman and an Irish Catholic schoolmarm. Himself an M.S.U.-trained ('23) poultry breeder, he became president of the International Baby Chick Association, supervised egg production for the NRA during the Depression. At 32, spurning an offer of $18,000 a year from a Chicago food-packing firm, he returned to M.S.U. as his alma mater's $4,500-a-year business manager. He chose wisely. By 1941, he had married the president's daughter and succeeded...
...face had been completely destroyed when he settled in Paris and had been rebuilt on the model of a stranger. One of the photographers had been a rock-and-roll star. The American unit publicist was on leave from a seminary in California, where he was preparing for the Unitarian Universalist ministry, his negotiations with the U.S. government on obtaining the brothel concession in Vietnam having fallen through...