Word: canonize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the board of trustees of the American Psychiatric Association makes a ruling, it is usually accepted as canon by the association's members. But when the board voted last December to cease classifying homosexuality as a "mental disorder," there was dissension in the psychiatric ranks. Opponents of the ruling circulated petitions, issued angry statements and forced the A.P.A. into unprecedented action: this month, for the first time in the A.P.A.'s 129-year history, a board decision is being put to a vote of the association's entire 21,000 members...
...Studio Club in New York. This small institution has since become the Whitney Museum. Now, 50 years later, it has mounted an ambitious exhibition, "The Flowering of American Folk Art, 1776-1876," which reflects the growth of interest in a once ignored field. If any show can provide a canon of quality in so vast an area, this assembly of works does...
...range of literary and intellectual likes and dislikes Nabokov registers here is a similar kind of possibility, a source of material, a vocabulary of its own. Nabokov says that many popular writers "simply don't exist" for him. Nabokov has his own firm canon of tastes--for protection from all the books which come charging down from the past, reputations fixed, for cover under which to deploy his own literary formations and figures...
...quiet reformation that may have profound effects on Roman Catholic discipline concerning divorce and remarriage is gaining ground among U.S. Catholics. It is being led by theologians, canon lawyers and even concerned bishops. The latest arguments for change include a sharp criticism of Roman Catholic annulment procedures by the Canon Law Society of America, and a thoughtful book entitled Divorce and Remarriage for Catholics? (Doubleday) by Monsignor Stephen J. Kelleher, onetime presiding judge of the marriage tribunal of the Archdiocese of New York...
...canon lawyers, who met last month in Washington, the improved procedures are still insufficient. Too often, they charge, justice depends on geography: some dioceses have well-informed, full-time tribunals, other dioceses only a few overworked men unfamiliar with the intricacies of canon law. What the U.S. needs, the canonists assert, is "an entirely new system of decision making in marriage cases...