Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pope Pius is likely to call a new consistory early next year. With the death last week of Adeodato Cardinal Piazza, 73, the number of cardinals who have-died since the last consistory in 1953 rose to 13. For the past year rumors have buzzed about the Vatican that the college of cardinals would soon be brought back to its full strength of 70 members. The consistory seems more imminent because of 1) the death of the Vatican librarian, Giovanni Cardinal Mercati (TIME, Sept. 2), a scholar who understood Aramaic and the intricacies of racing cars and rocketry, which left...
...current issue of the Soviet magazine Science & Life sounded a trumpet call for new zeal in the struggle against religion. "Apart from creating the material conditions necessary to have religion vanish," said Science & Life, "the Communist Party has worked tirelessly to employ skillfully these conditions to combat religious superstition." Not skillfully enough, perhaps; though the magazine proudly claims 50 million atheists for Russia back in 1935, it hazards no guess as to how many there are today in the 200 million population, reports merely that the number of believers "is continuing to dwindle." This does not mean, though, "that...
...Angeles electronics firm, gave up his post to become president of a new Ramo-Wooldridge division, the Space Technology Laboratories. The new Space division replaces Ramo-Wooldridge's Guided Missile Research Division, which is technical manager to the Air Force's ballistic-missile program, is designed to call attention to Ramo-Wooldridge's other divisions and functions by broadening its role to include non-Air Force work...
...title piece of this strange short-story collection, an emotionally disturbed child kicks his father in the groin. In Don't Call Me by My Right Name a man and wife take turns beating each other up. In Plan Now to Attend a hypocritical evangelist gets blind drunk in midmorning. In Sound of Talking a crippled husband makes his wife share his suffering. Almost all the women characters are fat and fortyish; almost all the men are shamed and unhappy. The poor are most often feebleminded, the rich vicious...
...filled with philosophic asides, many of the tales proved too stupefying even for the resolutely highbrow listeners of the BBC's Third Programme, where these dramatizations were originally heard. Tightly edited, translated into modern English by Nevill Coghill (TIME, Aug. 11, 1952), this first album contains the roll call of the Pilgrims in the Prologue, and the tales of the Monk, the Nun's Priest, the Reve, the Manciple and the Man of Law-a cross section of stories gay and gloomy, garrulous and risqué. A fine item for a long winter's night...