Word: indexers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relates directly to the number of young people rather than to the population as a whole, has shown a slightly slower drop because the young, "fertile" segment of the population, mostly born in the '30s, is proportionally smaller than it was a few years ago. Yet this key index, too, was down to its lowest level in two decades...
...according to the blanket NCAA ruling, any student with less than a 1.6 grade index (less than three C's and a D at Harvard) is automatically ineligible for aid or varsity participation. Any new student with a predicted grade index under 1.6 is ineligible for aid for his freshman year...
Rome's Indexers gradually found it impossible to keep pace with the modern world's publication explosion, and recent condemnations seem rather arbitrary. In 1948, the works of Jean-Paul Sartre were condemned for their existential atheism, and in 1952 those of Andre Gide for immorality. Oddly enough, neither Karl Marx nor Henry Miller have ever been Indexed, although their writings were presumably forbidden for Catholics under a provision of canon law that automatically condemns Communist or pornographic books. Last reprinted in 1948, the Index has not had a new entry since 1961, when Rome banned a life...
Dead Letter. In theory, the penalty for reading Indexed books is extremely severe: for works written by known heretics, the punishment is excommunication that can be lifted only by appeal to Rome. In recent times, this solemn sentence has not been imposed, largely because the Index itself has become one of the world's rarest books. Even many Catholic college libraries do not have a copy. While schools often go through the motions of getting official permission for their students to read forbidden books for classwork, most Catholics regard the Index as a dead letter and read what they...
What's Cooking. Inflation seems certain to continue, though at a slower rate. Last week the Labor Department reported that the consumer price index, which advanced 0.6 of a point in February, went up another 0.4 of a point in March, to a record 112% of the 1957-59 average. Federal economists expect prices this year to rise 3%, compared with 1.7% in 1965. Tags on services, soft goods and industrial goods will go up, but such consumer durables as cars and appliances will hold fairly steady; contrary to many rosy predictions, food prices will not drop...