Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gains. The news pouring from Government and corporate statisticians told of gains all around. Industrial production for April rose two more points to another record high at 149 on the Federal Reserve index. Nondurables were up a point, and slow-moving durable goods were finally sprinting ahead with a four-point advance to 164 on the index and the highest level since early 1957. With the housing boom still clipping along in April at a record rate of 1,390,000 new homes a year, output of building materials was up sharply; so were appliances, TV sets, furniture...
There was one index on the downgrade. Happily, it was for consumer food prices. Dun & Bradstreet's shopping basket of 31 basic foods (one pound of each) dropped to $6.13 wholesale, off 2? for the week and 44? below last year's recession level...
Started by Pope St. Gelasius in the 5th century, the Index Librorum Prohibitorum today generally condemns books on religion not approved by Catholic authorities and books "against faith and morals," including all Communist books. Specifically condemned are some 6,000 works by 4,000 authors (among them: Addison, Balzac, Dumas, father and son, Kant, Spinoza, Voltaire), which Catholics may not read without special permission...
Over the years such oldtime outlaws as Dante's De Monarchia and Arius' Thalia have been quietly removed from the Index. Last week the Congregation of the Holy Office took another step toward a possible reform of the Index: it allowed an Italian publisher to bring out an annotated version of Les Miserables...
Victor Hugo's novel went on the Index in 1864 under pressure from Napoleon III, who hoped to curtail the popularity of a book in which revolutionaries were honest and noble. Said one Vatican spokesman: "It occurred to us that, with doctrinally objectionable passages annotated, this essentially Christian book might do some good." The annotations appear in the form of footnotes. Thus Hugo, in chapter four, describes the bishop's doctrine: "Err, yield to temptation, sin, but be just!" Says a footnote: "A very easy and peaceable moral thesis which had nothing in common with Catholic doctrine...