Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exploring the hope of union with other Christian bodies. Advocates of Catholic reform, the church's "liberals." have been worried by rumors that the council might be stalled by such standpat conservatives as the cardinals of the Curia and the bishops of Italy and Spain. "The Holy Ghost," warned one Irish cleric in Rome, "has his back up against the wall...
...copy for a monthly blend of history and news. But not enough of the initial subscribers stayed around. Campbell's $1,000,000 ran out quickly, and the 125,000 charter subscribers dwindled to 7,000. Last week, after just four issues, USA*1 gave up the ghost. It merged with another publishing experiment: A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford's Show Magazine...
Back to Arminius. Mosley, a still shrill ghost who returned to Britain from self-imposed exile in France and Ireland in 1958 (he had been detained in England early in World War II), is having a minor revival. Neo-Fascists have about as much influence as neo-Druids would have, but in an economically and politically uneasy Britain, Mosley's clumsy thrusts at the Jews and colored immigrants whom he blames for "economic crises" no longer seemed merely eccentric. The Ridley Road riot was the third such outburst that Mosley's men had provoked in three weeks (total...
...long, lonely journey is admirable: "To try to rediscover this monster land" after years of easy living in Manhattan and a country place in Sag Harbor. L.I. He meets some interesting people: migrant Canucks picking potatoes in Maine, an itinerant Shakespearean actor in North Dakota, his own literary ghost back home in California's Monterey Peninsula. But when the trip is done, Steinbeck's attempt at rediscovery reveals nothing more remarkable than a sure gift for the obvious observation...
...should have been sobered by news of closed factories, abandoned farms and shuttered stores that reveal the extent of the economic paralysis caused by the flight of Europeans. Once prosperous Orleansville looks like a ghost town with only a few tattered Moslems on its wide boulevards. At Perregaux, where 20,000 Europeans lived, there...