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...persevered. "Diocesan seminaries -- all seminaries -- were difficult for blacks," he says with no apparent bitterness. In 1962 he was ordained in the Josephite order of priests, which was founded in the 19th century to serve blacks. Its leadership had always been white, but nine years later he became their vicar-general, or second-in-command, the first black to hold such an office in any religious order. Rome was noticing him. Marino was consecrated as a bishop in 1974 and assigned as an auxiliary in Washington. In 1985 he was elected secretary of the American bishops' national conference, a mark...
...turning the muddled phrase "December bee" into a last futile grasp toward sanity. Along the way, she alternates between kittenish manipulation and alienating acerbity, between sly concealment of her growing disorientation and frank revelry in it. She appears to have two families: the real ones are a dried-up vicar husband, a sanctimonious sister-in-law and an estranged adult son. The imaginary figures, who burst in accompanied by golden light and birdsong, are beautiful, adoring, suave, rich and effortlessly brilliant -- a shallow bourgeois fantasy of upper-class life, disturbing not only because the wife yearns for this escape...
During his four years as White House deputy chief of staff, Michael Deaver was the protector and projector of Ronald's and Nancy Reagan's public images. He was the "Vicar of Visuals," master of the carefully managed photo opportunities that became a hallmark of the Reagan Administration. Yet again and again in this intendedly affectionate memoir, he offers up intimate snapshots that undercut his previous handiwork...
...harsh truth is that Haig is running on what might be called the vindication platform. Bitter at the Reaganauts for what he once called the "guerrilla campaign" against him as Secretary of State, he believes (correctly) that Iranscam is proof that Reagan indeed needed a strong foreign policy "vicar." Equally astringent on domestic policy, he castigates Washington's "fiscal flabbiness." He is likely to be the Republican most critical of major aspects of the Reagan record, foreign and domestic...
...squad, there was a wine-soaked vicar with a musty mix of religious and classical musics; and for the oldies, folkies, and general weirdos there was a dazed flowerchild called Tina who played sweetness, light, and obsolete acoustic instrumental stuff. Tina performed under a plastic oak tree, with a huge cask of cider beside her on the astroturf...