Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Behind the Times. The volume and scope of the reform proposals suggest that the Jesuits, traditionally the church's intellectual avantgarde, may have fallen a bit behind the times. Some members of the society freely admit it. "It's not that we've lost luster," says one prominent U.S. Jesuit theologian, "but others have made advances." The Jesuits can still boast proudly of having some of the church's brightest intellectual luminaries, ranging from such heady European theologians as Karl Rahner of Germany and France's Henri de Lubac to California's James Arenz...
...considerable stability of prices does not, however, mean that some prices have not risen enough to be felt -or fallen enough to be appreciated. The prices of industrial raw materials, often forerunners of more general price movements, have climbed 14% in a year. Tin and zinc prices have been edging up, and a worldwide jump in copper prices two weeks ago brought immediate markups in copper and brass products; last week aluminum producers lifted prices on a broad range of products. Treasury Secretary Henry H. Fowler believes that if this trend accelerates "we may have some problems," but that...
...Friendship back in 1963. From Common Market cooperation to German hopes for some sort of Atlantic nuclear sharing, De Gaulle has proved increasingly obdurate in insisting on his vision of an independent France running Europe, with West Germany at best a junior partner. As a result, the Germans have fallen into a new mood of Angst about their own role in Europe...
Sadly enough, not only youth has abandoned Simone de Beauvoir. So has judgment. That brilliant, recalcitrant mind, trained at the Sorbonne and annealed during the French Resistance, cannot accept the shape of the postwar world. When Dienbienphu falls, she exults, although the fallen are Frenchmen. The U.S. is decadent and bent on war. Russia is interested only in world peace, and fills the sky with Sputniks in proof of its military superiority, which will keep the peace. Pope Pius XII dies, and Mile, de Beauvoir, who renounced God at 15, accepts the news "with a certain amount of pleasure...
...despair not. You can uplift the fallen kite-flier by going to the Graduate School of Design's annual kite-flying contest tomorrow. Schneider's Band leads the grand procession from Robinson Hall at 2 p.m. and will arrive at the Charles...