Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...equally important Scriptural imperative: "They shall be two in one flesh." Suenens proposed that the Council commission responsible for Schema 13 ("The Church in the Modern World") should work with a recently appointed papal team of birth-control experts to frame a doctrine on marriage that would take into account new medical discoveries. "We have learned many things since Aristotle," he said. "I urge you, brothers, let us avoid a new Galileo case-one is certainly enough in the history of the church." Even more explicit was Maximos IV Saigh, the Melchite Patriarch of Antioch. Speaking, as always, in French...
...Texas asked all the obvious questions of both the kids and their parents; they did all the usual tests for infections and childhood illnesses, checked the food and water supply - and found nothing to account for what they called "the tired-child syndrome." In desperation, the medics went back to questioning the parents about their children's habits. Only after several interviews did the truth come out. The youngsters were spending from three to six hours watching TV every weekday, and six to ten hours on Saturdays and Sundays. Captain Richard M. Narkewicz and Captain Stanley M. Graven told...
Only a massive defection of Republicans to Johnson-based generally on the fear that Goldwater was simply too unpredictable to be trusted with one of the highest positions of leadership in the free world-could account for John- son's sweep of New England and the Midwest...
...contempt for most of humanity was complete. He regarded hatred as the one majestic emotion of this miserable species, for he who hates is at least passionately concerned, not docilely conformist. He poured all his venom into a novel, Kaputt, an account of Nazi atrocities on the Eastern front, and into a later novel, The Skin, describing barbarous conditions under the U.S. occupation of Italy. With a passion akin to Swift's, Malaparte sought to indict the cruelties of mankind. Readers were shocked, as he intended; they were also shocked by the fact that Malaparte seemed to be enjoying...
...opposite of all other Italians, who, even when standing upright, seem to be on their knees. In religious processions, Tuscans carry Christ along as if they were on their way to lynch him. They believe that even Christ, the Madonna and the Saints must sooner or later give an account of themselves-which is, one must admit, a fine way of turning the Judgment Day upside down...