Word: indexers
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...another sharp increase in food prices. Leading the rise were beef, veal and poultry, which, with fish, jumped 17.4% in cost during the twelve-month period ending March 31. Pushed on by these three main-course staples, overall food prices leaped .7% in one month, hiking the consumer price index .4% to an all-time high of 112% (based on the 1957-1959 average...
Government economists nonetheless see a glimmer of hope for the months ahead. The wholesale price index, which usually leads the consumer index, has remained steady for two months. Urged on by President Johnson, housewives have shown increasing resistance to higher prices, bringing the price of pork down for the first time in four months...
Obsolete institutions of the Roman Catholic Church, like old sacristans, do not die; they merely fade away. The latest such anachronism to drift into disuse is the Index of Prohibited Books -some 6,000 immoral or heretical works that Catholics have been forbidden to read under pain of sin. Last week Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviana, whose Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is responsible for deciding which books to condemn, announced that the Index would never again be updated or reprinted, and will henceforth serve merely "as a historic document...
Matter of Conscience. The Index is a product of the Council of Trent's counter-reforming zeal to protect Catholics against Protestant error. The first Index was published in 1559; it gradually grew into an impressive reader's non-guide to literature that might endanger faith or morals. By the 18th century, it was something of a sign of excellence to be listed; among the condemned classics of the Index are Montaigne's Essays, Gibbon's Decline and Fall, and the works of Descartes, Hume, Hobbes and Voltaire...
...various other unconventional happenings deprive her of both vocation and bodily peace. Diderot meant his book less as an anticlerical attack than an attack on the corrupt society of the 18th century, which frequently forced illegitimates into the church. Recognizing it as such, Rome never placed it on the Index of forbidden reading for Catholics. It is, in fact, today regarded as a French classic and studied in French schools...