Word: commonical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alexander Barbieri, common pleas court judge in Philadelphia, ordered the investigation last July after a young defendant told him that he had been repeatedly raped by prisoners while on his way to court in the sheriff's windowless steel van. More than 3,000 inmates were interviewed at the city's three penal institutions-the Philadelphia Detention Center, the House of Corrections and Holmesburg Prison. By conservative estimates, says the report, 2,000 assaults took place in the past two years. And once a man has been attacked, he is marked as a target for homosexual advances...
...executives, most former priests tend to translate their spiritual concern into academic or community service. Many seek jobs as teachers-some have even been hired by Catholic schools and colleges-or as social workers. A large number of ex-priests have married former nuns-an understandable result of their common background...
...consider themselves Catholics in good standing. Many attend daily Mass and receive the sacraments. Still others celebrate Mass, either privately, for their new families at home, or in underground churches. St. Louis and Detroit, for example, have cells of former priests and nuns who meet regularly to discuss their common problems...
After the bosses patched up with the unions, it was common knowledge that if you got connected by the middle of October you'd be the first one on your block. This opinion, however, overlooked the capacity of the bureaucracy to bore its petitioners to death...
Chosen Nation. What does it take to build an empire? Will to power? Greed? Not in De Riencourt's book. Historically, the true empire builder, he thinks, is motivated by "an idealistic longing," a faith in universal law, a passion for a "common culture." He is more in the spirit of a missionary than of Genghis Khan. De Riencourt quotes Senator Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana speaking half a century ago: "God has made us the master organizers of the world to establish system where chaos reigns. He has marked the American people as his chosen nation to finally...