Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...publications have been brainwashing the Japanese people with all manner of imagined poison about me." The latest toxin: a suggestion that her fiance, a Spanish banker, was connected with the Mafia. "This really is too much," she blazed. "At last I have decided to do something about the bad habit." Dewi didn't know how much damages to ask for the correction of such habits, she told newsmen on her arrival in Tokyo, but "my expenses are not low, you know...
...aware of it. I think that the present cultural scene is so changing, that to try to orient yourself very distinctly is just to make yourself sad and miserable. You get into a professional situation where you are a writer, you do it out of habit, you must write a certain number of words a day, the older you get the more old-fashioned you become...
...dominated by male concepts. Boston College's Mary Daly, a Roman Catholic laywoman, says a woman's revolution within the church is needed to overturn the patriarchal, male idea of leadership, which she describes as hyper-rational and aggressive. With it would go the masculine habit of constructing boundaries between "self" and "other." Gone, too, would be a God who keeps mankind in "infantile subjection." The new God would "encourage self-actualization and social commitment." Daly also sees a de-emphasis of Jesus: "The idea of a unique divine incarnation in a human being of male...
...house, since it owns no real estate. Each sister makes a home for herself, sometimes shared with one or two other members, finds her own job and pays her own taxes. Each writes a private commitment to Christ instead of taking formal vows. None is required to wear a habit or any other religious symbol. Many, however, including Sister Kopp, wear crucifixes or other emblems of the profession...
...Loretto. Under the leadership of their former mother general, Sister Luke Tobin (the only American nun to attend Vatican II), the Loretto community became the prototype for renewal in American sisterhoods. The Loretto nuns were among the first in the U.S. to modernize their convent schedule and dress-the habit is often exchanged for the civilian garb appropriate to their work-and branch out into professions other than the teaching, nursing or running of orphanages and old-age homes usually associated with sisters. In 1965, a Loretto nun became a full-time executive in the Job Corps. Today some members...