Word: contacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stifled by Conformity. "Seminary teaching," the report sums up, "often lacks contact with life - it is too far from where the world is; its methods are antiquated, its concerns circumscribed, its outlook timid and unimaginative. Also, too much seminary teaching is stifled by conformity to canonical requirements, which encourages routine repetition, dogmatism, evasion of current issues and lack of reflection on matters of profound concern...
...Tighter admissions procedures and higher academic standards, but at the same time the opening of all seminary doors to more women as well as to men who are not fully committed to ordination. >More contact with neighboring universities and seminaries of other denominations...
...Boston; it is made up of 50 female "field epidemiologists" and directed by Dr. Nicholas Fiumara, head of the Massachusetts health department's communicable diseases division. Like any good chief of detectives, Dr. Fiumara has analyzed his problem statistically. Only about 3% of Massachusetts' cases result from contact with prostitutes since, as Dr. Fiumara says, "even streetwalkers take pretty good care of themselves." Homosexual males account for 12%, and heterosexual free love for 85%. The highest incidence of gonorrhea is in the 20-to-24 age range, with teen-agers second. Most of these...
Double Standard. To track down cases and contacts, Dr. Fiumara's investigators pose as social workers, saleswomen, poll takers or long-lost relatives. They arrange interviews in law offices, public libraries, department stores and cocktail lounges. "VD certainly shows no class prejudice," says one nurse-detective. "I go to a fair share of houses with maids and chauffeurs. Parents in the upper and middle classes get hysterical when I tell them that one of them, or their child, has been named as a contact. And there's a double standard: fathers get apoplectic if they hear that...
...tireless traveler and telephoner who at his peak managed 75,000 air miles a year and $300,000 worth of telephone bills, he also kept in almost daily contact with Edgar in California, made trips to the mainland to keep an eye on his holdings. He returned ill from his last trip in June, was taken off the airplane in an ambulance, died of what was described as circulatory ailments. He fell short by 15 years of a final ambition to live...