Word: ets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Latin America who argue the need for widespread social changes used to regard the Roman Catholic Church as an enemy or a neutral -certainly not as an ally. But in several Latin American countries the late Pope John's influence - and in particular his 1961 encyclical Mater et Magistra, calling for social justice - set off a new spirit of reform and social action in the church...
...often poetic, and even the acting is haltingly expressive so long as the actors keep their mouths shut. Somebody might salvage the whole project by dubbing it into French, blocking in a set of sophisticated subtitles, sending it to Cannes and smuggling it back under the title of Brian et Genie...
...uncontrolled, extreme in everything, with an unbridled imagination about sex that has never been equaled-there you have me; and once more, either kill me or take me as I am, for I shall not change." Cut off from sex, De Sade wrote about it-incessantly. His novel Aline et Valcour was mild enough; it contained only one poisoning and just a few flagellations...
...ascetic, aristocratic Pius XII, Pope John did seem like a universal father, and his teaching voice reached not only 558 million Roman Catholics but all men. Two of his encyclicals may rank as classics, and they caught the imagination of many outside John's church. In Mater et Magistra (1961), he brought up to date the tradition of Catholic social teaching first formulated by Leo XIII in Rerum Novarum, defending both man's right to private property and the legitimacy of "socialization" for the common good. Pacem in Terris, the first encyclical addressed not just to the bishops...
...have anyone else trying to stop the momentum of the council's first session." Other Catholics rejected the spirit that led to his teaching encyclicals and the "opening to the East." It was a Roman Catholic editor, William Buckley of the National Review, who dismissed Mater et Magistra as "a venture in triviality." Pacem in Terris was coolly received by Catholics in northern Europe, where one leading statesman last week characterized his Pope as "a very good priest but a bad politician." Right-wing Italian Catholics-shocked by the big Communist vote that followed closely on Pacem in Terris...