Word: irregulars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Remarkably, Washington can do all this although a doctor told him in spring training that he has an irregular heartbeat. Washington suffers occasional fainting spells; last week he passed out twice at home and then underwent some medical tests, the results of which were still unknown...
After eleven women were ordained as the first female priests in the Episcopal church in a much disputed irregular service last summer, the church's House of Bishops declared the ordinations invalid. To the Rev. William Wendt, the ardently progressive rector of the Church of St. Stephen and the Incarnation in Washington, D.C., the bishops' ruling was an inescapable challenge. He permitted one of the women, Alison Cheek, to celebrate the Eucharist in his parish. Soon, 18 priests in the diocese brought charges of disobedience against Wendt, setting the stage for a rare ecclesiastical trial (TIME...
...result, at week's end he was cited for contempt by the five-judge ecclesiastical court. That left as the star witness his predecessor as presiding bishop, John Hines. When Stringfellow asked Hines his opinion of the ordinations, he replied: "I believe them to be valid but irregular." Hines, however, stated that a bishop can refuse to license an ordained minister to perform priestly functions...
What the Baroque is really all about can be gleaned from the original use of the French word baroque to describe irregular or misshapen pearls. Explains Kipnis: "In Baroque music of Bach, Handel and Rameau, the pearls are the musical forms-such as the sonata, the concerto grosso or the da capo aria. Trills, other ornaments, colorful dissonance, wildly uneven rhythms-all these are devices that create tremendous tension, yank the listener back and forth and leave him in anything but absolute comfort...
...Tuesday Guinier released a letter he sent to Bok in which he charges the administration with "glaring violations" of an earlier promise to give Afro some say in DuBois's development. Guiner's letter also said Bok's failure to consult him on the advisory board selection was "highly irregular on both administrative and ethical grounds...