Word: chapters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...administrator, by promising Luton the new schools, housing and industrial expansion that Labor is pragmatically building its election hopes around. Before returning to London for Parliament's reopening this week, Douglas-Home, the new M.P. for Kinross, remained professionally optimistic: "Luton was the last page of the old chapter. Kinross is the first page...
Until last week the council had been characterized more by illusory busyness than by substantial action. Nearly every day the bishops made a bit of news by ratifying some new chapter of the long schema (draft proposal) on liturgy. For example, they authorized greater use of the vernacular in the Mass and the sacraments, and the setting of a fixed date for Easter if secular governments and other Christian bodies agreed. In reality, most of these votes simply rubber-stamped ideas that had been approved in principle at the 1962 session. The rest of the time, the bishops listened...
...Curia-sponsored move to make the Virgin Mary a major subject of debate, and passed a Curia-opposed proposal to revive the order of deacons in the church. With Munich's Julius Cardinal Dopfner, one of the four moderators, gaveling them onward, the bishops quickly approved a chapter in the liturgical schema on sacred art that approved "modern" art but condemned extreme abstractionism. This week they moved on to debate a second key schema that pinpoints the division of rights and duties of the bishops and the Roman Curia...
...years before his death at 75. A visitor to his retreat in the south of France reported that at the last the old man bitterly regretted ever having written it, confessing that he did it chiefly because he needed the money. But even before he finished the last chapter, he was suffering from brief spasms of self-knowledge. "Every idiot who has ever met me," he wrote, "talks of my extraordinary conceit. Perhaps, since my revelation of Shakespeare, I have taken myself too seriously...
...about us," said Pooh. "So each chapter is a study of us written by a different type of critic...