Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wanted list: for Emperor Hirohito, an old pro at marine biology, scientific data on Hydrozoa and the latest French research on oysters; for Crown Prince Akihito, three kinds of tropical fish; for Prince Mikasa, the Emperor's youngest brother and a history prof at Tokyo Women's Christian College, a museum catalogue on archaeology...
...request was turned down. For the next eight years, according to L'Espresso, the notes flew, governments rose and fell, finance ministers came and went, until at last, in 1955, Minister of Finance Giulio Andreotti, a Christian Democratic Party stalwart, said yes. Minister Andreotti promptly defended his decision on legal grounds and pointed out that it applied only to diplomats appointed before the tax was imposed. Prince Pacelli and Count Pecci kept silent. But, crying "anticlericalists!" the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano opened a running debate with critics of the tax exemptions, declared that the implied slap...
...long, dim view of this nuptial speedup is taken this week by the Christian Century: "By what great shift in sociology, psychology, temperature or radiation are we to account for that clamant coupling of pre-ministerial students which threatens now to turn our dormitories into nurseries, our campuses into playpens, our graduate colleges into preschools? Ordinarily we would plead for no ivory tower, but if the choice is ivory tower or brooder coop, the remoter symbol looks better all the time...
...Christian will not contain much that is new for those who have passed through the illuminating fires of Hum 5 or Phil 1b. But the apalling atavistic rites that drew earnest millions to Madison Square Garden last summer, and the pietistic claptrap emanating constantly from the White House indicate that Russell's rationalistic pamphleteering is still far from superfluous. Neither the great mass of people nor their highest leaders have evidently yet caught up with the thought of the eighteenth century. Russell performs a real service by reiterating the unrefuted arguments of Voltaire and Hume which, seemingly out of sheer...
...whatever its virtues as a piece of popular literature, Why I Am Not A Christian will probably fail in academic circles because it takes no note of the two main nineteenth-century developments in theology, which theologians have done little but elaborate ever since...