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...Catholic marriage partners end up in an ecclesiastical court, they come face to face with the ancient Roman concept of jurisprudence-guilty until proven innocent-instead of the Anglo-Saxon juridical concept, which embodies the opposite assumption. However much a petitioner may be convinced that his marriage exists in name only, the marriage bond is presumed to exist unless proved otherwise. The 639-year-old Sacred Roman Rota, the ultimate court of appeals in marriage cases (it annulled only 182 marriages worldwide in 1969), sets the pattern that diocesan and regional tribunals are expected to follow. When in doubt, judges...
...mean we're supposed to applaud?" asks the lady from Wichita, Kans. "Why, I never heard of such a thing." The general audience is indeed something to stretch Anglo-Saxon and North European credulity. It is a religious occasion presided over by the spiritual leader of 600 million Catholics; yet at times it resembles nothing so much as Shea Stadium on banner night, with overtones of the Christmas show at Radio City Music Hall, the National Spelling Bee and the state fair...
...American note about the U.S. Air Force discontinuing its bagpipe band [March 16]: America is supposedly the "melting pot" of nations; so it hardly seems fair to rule out the regalia of one of the most colorful countries of the world. After all, aren't most Americans of Anglo-Saxon and Celtic descent? Is Mrs. Ryan such a thoroughbred American that she can deny this...
...poor" seems such a poignantly simple Anglo-Saxon expression. Yet previous Democratic Administrations, abetted by sociologists, made them "the disadvantaged" or "the culturally deprived." Now a memorandum in the Office of Economic Opportunity (a title that is another Thalidomide child of the language) has dictated that "the poor" shall be referred to, for precision's sake, as "lowincome individuals." As in "For ye have the low-income individuals always with...
...could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a King of infinite space," Borges seems completely at home with his years and his blindness. By 1955, his sight was nearly gone. "I stopped wasting time at movies," he jokes. But he actually began an intensive study of Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse to enjoy the odd lore about monsters and dragons as well as recurrent poetic devices-known as kennings-"whale's path" and "swan-road" for sea. For relaxation he is read to, mostly from favorite writers whom his intellectual admirers disdain: Kipling, Conrad, Stevenson. "Time flows...