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...Ignatius had done graduate work in mathematics at Yeshiva and had never recovered from the shock.) Worse than that, though, Harvard didn't have discipline--no more parietals, no compulsory chapel at 6 a.m. And to top it all off, Harvard had women. The path to damnation was opening wider and wider in Ignatius's eyes...
WOMEN PRIESTS. The bishops "affirm" the Vatican's recent statement barring women's ordination and defeated a proposal favoring women deacons. They pledge a generalized commitment to wider roles for women and "further study" of the priesthood issue, but rejected an amendment admitting that "many persons find difficulty" with the Vatican's reasoning...
...color on a flat surface. It had to do with the complexities of drawing from life, with adapting the lessons of Rubens, with theatricality, lust, tigers and Arabs, the problems of history painting and of allegory. Delacroix's success as a colorist cannot be separated from the wider ambitions of his painting. Neither can that of Matisse or the impressionists. Nor is there any real reason to suppose Noland could actually be to his generation what Matisse was to his. The scope and meaning of his art are too narrow and abstract for that. It takes more than talent...
Previously, the Class Day Committee provided the senior class with a list of ten or so candidates. "This process would allow a minority to prevail over the wishes of a wider range of students who might prefer a certain type of speaker rather than a particular individual. The committee's objective was to come up with a speaker that the class would enjoy most rather than trying to get a big name." Marcus said...
...months, as investigators question witnesses and survivors and study the tapes from the flight recorders that were on board both planes. In our cover stories this week we set ourselves a broader task: not only to piece together the narrative of the Tenerife disaster but also to examine the wider question of just how safe air travel is today. Answer: very...