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Modern skepticism is intensifying the problem of facing death, says the Rev. Joseph T. Alves, head of Boston's Roman Catholic Family Counseling, Inc. A social psychologist, Father Alves is directing a project for training "social volunteers" to help the lonely aged adjust to modern society's pressures and to comfort those who are incurably ill. There is wide public misunderstanding, said Father Alves, of the full purpose of the Roman Catholic "sacrament of the sick." Long called "extreme unction," it is still too generally regarded as simply the last anointing before death. But in modern theology...
...hours of Labor's victory at the polls, Sir Alec Douglas-Home had to rent a car to move his household out of No. 10 Downing Street. For his Tory ministers, many of whom had held office far longer than Sir Alec, it was even more wrenching to adjust to life without liveried government limousines, green scrambler telephones, deferential aides...
...range of blacks and dark greys continue for several long minutes. Abruptly, the corridor leads into daylight. The camera becomes stable, the greys turn brilliant white, and like the prisoner whose path we have been following, we are glad to be out of the aggravating dark, but able to adjust only slowly to the new light...
Married couples have been appointed resident fellows in 45 Concord and 103 Walker, in contrast to the single graduate student who lives in the upperclass houses. The Administration felt this arrangement preferable for helping freshmen adjust to Radcliffe...
Embattled Shopkeepers. Writhing, maneuvering and often split, the party tried to adjust to the new Communist world that was born with Stalin's death. Though he had been an ardent follower of Stalin - and had even at Stalin's orders betrayed the Italian Socialists to the Fascist police - Togliatti now enthusiastically embraced "polycentrism" - that is, the right of each national Communist Party to follow its own course. When criticized from the outside, Togliatti would merely give a vastly expressive shrug: "Siamo italiani [We are Italians...