Word: human
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...Pope might eliminate the previous rule of thumb that made 60 an absolute minimum age for a new Pope. But this idea receded as the week progressed, partly because tradition is not easily abandoned in the church, and because the Cardinals are only too aware of the unpredictability of human life and death. (It was recalled that Leo XIII was notably frail but lived to be 93. When a well-wisher said to him, "May you live to be 100," he replied: "Why do you want to set limits on Divine Providence?") Even so, the health factor swiftly eliminated...
Last week speculation also ran to names rarely heard before: Paulo Evaristo Arns, 57, Brazil's brave champion of human rights; Joseph Cordeiro, 60, of Pakistan, who exudes saintly simplicity and concern for the poor; and Poland's Karol Wojtyla, 58, who is a strong leader in a hostile environment-and speaks fluent Italian...
...nobody." Last week he could be assured of at least 18 avid readers-the members of the Swedish Academy, which awarded the 74-year-old writer the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature for his "impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life...
BORN. To Indian parents, whose names were not revealed in order to protect their child from repercussions within their nation's conservative Hindu society; the world's second baby conceived outside the human body, two months after the birth of the first such child, Louise Brown; a girl; in Calcutta. Weight...
Atomic bombs, carcinogenic threats, the futility of state, mechanical efficiency--the entire decadence of human life in 20th century America--whittles reality into an apocalypse; and America needs and loves her tragic heroes more than ever...