Word: canonizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...publication of Bech Is Back (Knopf; $13.95), a series of seven related stories that amount to his 26th volume. This figure does not include Updike's four books for children, which sometimes tug at the dust jackets of their elders and ask to be let into the canon. And No. 27, a thick manuscript of essays, literary criticism, reviews and serendipitous miscellanea, currently sits on a groaning desk in his editor's office in midtown Manhattan, awaiting its turn to augment the author's reputation...
...impoverished Lithuanian parents who immigrated to Cicero, Ill., Archbishop Marcinkus had enjoyed a steady rise in the Vatican hierarchy before the scandal broke. After taking a degree in canon law at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University, Marcinkus joined the Vatican's State Secretariat in 1952 and soon caught the eye of Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini, who was to become Pope Paul VI in 1963. The new Pontiff made the tall (6 ft. 3 in.), burly American cleric part of an intimate circle of papal advisers. In 1964 the Pontiff selected Marcinkus, a born organizer, to be his advanceman...
...archbishop-banker had previously enjoyed an unusually successful career in the Catholic Church. Born in Cicero, Ill., he attended a Chicago seminary and was a parish priest before going to Rome in 1950 to study canon law. Once there, he started working his way up the Vatican hierarchy by serving as a diplomat. His administrative skill, as well as his commanding height (6 ft. 3 in.) helped him land a job as bodyguard and advance man for Pope Paul...
...long-term view for the future is a 1920s proposal by Belgium's Desire Cardinal Mercier that Anglicanism be "united, not absorbed." This would leave the Archbishop of Canterbury as patriarch of a group that would come under the papacy but retain control of its liturgy and canon law. Still, no sort of reunion-Runcie's flexibility aside-could occur without similar flexibility from Rome...
...worth of personal computers sold worldwide. As the industry exploded, however, Japan's presence began to be felt. Last year Japanese manufacturers rang up sales of $210 million. The companies include a number of well-established firms with recognizable brand names in digital watches, stereo equipment and calculators: Canon, Hitachi, Toshiba, Seiko, Sharp and Casio. Nippon Electric Co., the giant electronics firm, is now selling $100 million worth of personal computer equipment in the U.S., and last week it introduced three versions of its latest model...