Word: birth
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...obscene that the chroniclers (unfortunately) blush to describe it. We do know that at some point, a mock priest with a rosary of potatoes round his neck performed a mock wedding. Death and rebirth were usually celebrated together, until sharp poverty came along in the 17th century to make birth a curse, and sex no laughing matter...
Doctors then began to recognize many other birth defects resulting from maternal rubella, including abnormalities in the heart, limb deformities, deafness and mental retardation. Such damage occurs in about 50% of fetuses whose mothers had rubella during their first six months of pregnancy...
...attic. Seeking reassurance, the pair try the ritual of childhood games-Parcheesi, Chinese checkers-then break off even this relationship. Chris teaches Ellen to shoot. At last all they share is the gun, as if the final game were to be a game of kill. More and more, the birth they await seems a kind of impending death...
Died. James P. Warburg, 72, multimillionaire financier and author of dozens of books on U.S. foreign policy (Peace in Our Time?, 1940; The West in Crisis, 1959); of a heart attack; in Greenwich, Conn. Wealthy by birth, well placed in banking, Warburg had every reason to support the established order. Instead, he became an articulate advocate of new, often radical political maneuvers, assailing such elements of U.S. policy as the refusal to seat Communist China in the U.N., and America's stress on military rather than socioeconomic solutions to the cold...
...teach at St. John's College through the summer. If and when the Pope accepts Shannon's resignation as Auxiliary Bishop of St. Paul and as pastor of St. Helena's Church in Minneapolis, he will remain a bishop-but without portfolio. As for the birth control controversy, his challenge to the encyclical makes it clear that the issue is not dead. Indeed, one Vatican rumor has it that Pope Paul is preparing yet another encyclical on the subject...