Word: canonization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decision have been greeted with responses ranging from indifference to incomprehension. Few of the 96,000 whites-chiefly Afrikaners, Germans and Britons-doubt that South African rule is for the best. Among blacks, there is tribal loyalty but no feeling of nationhood. Says Dr. Romanus Kapungu, a doctor in canon law from Rome University and chief councilor of the Kavango tribal authority: "If you asked most of our people, they wouldn't know what all the fuss is about...
...kings. Though our society has learned to excuse almost anything else, it still finds one sin-tardiness-unpardonable. It is as if we had collectively accepted Alice's harried, harassed White Rabbit ("Oh, dear! Oh, dear! I shall be too late!") as our model. Perhaps the only social canon of Emily Post's that still has all but universal acceptance is her dictum: "You must not be late...
...they are uncertain of the full meaning and the life span of the Jesus revolution. Says Bisagno: "All I know is that kids are turning on to Jesus. My concern is that the staid, traditional churches will reject these kids and miss the most genuine revival of our lifetime." Canon Edward N. West of Manhattan's Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine has also made his church...
...many Americans accept "zero population growth" as a new canon of conventional wisdom that it comes as a surprise to hear the notion disputed. Some blacks, in fact, are so proud of the high black birth rate that they attack Z.P.G. as a white scheme to curb black power. Now comes a more surprising attack, this one from Jewish intellectuals, most of whom had endorsed birth control as a sane way to ease world hunger and poverty...
...With your article on the discovery of a painting by Rogier van der Weyden [April 5] you have a reproduction of a portrait with the title "St. Ivo of Chartres." There seems to be some confusion here. France's Ivo (Yves de Chartres) wrote collections of canon law, but it was St. Yves of Brittany who was the patron saint of lawyers and is renowned for his defense of the poor and for free legal aid to the peasants. He was Yves (sometimes Ives or, in Latin, Ivo) Helory, who was born in 1253 on his father...