Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some work sputters on. The Congregation for Saints' Causes continued to investigate the sanctity of candidates last week, while Villot's former secretariat acknowledged the mountains of condolence messages. The usual Vatican postage stamps marked sede vacante (vacant see) were issued. A prized collector's item, they raise revenue that will help to offset the cost of the conclave (budgeted initially at $2 million...
Vacations are also a big-budget item. "Before we had a house and baby we spent all our money on trips," says Ivor Bloom, 29, manager of Crimson Travel Service's Boston office. Bloom's wife also works in the travel business. "We are fairly typical," he notes. "If a couple has not made the major purchase of a house, they put their extra income into seeing the world." When the new elite travels, it is to stay longer at more distant, expensive and exotic destinations. Young two-earner couples prefer to pay more for guaranteed rather than...
...Giving a name," Thomas Carlyle once said, "is a poetic art." Perhaps, but it can also be a trying one. Item: Retreating before the distemper of feminists who do not like all hurricanes to bear women's names, Government meteorologists this year will christen storms not only Aletta but Bud and Daniel and Fico. Item: A national chain, Sambo's Restaurants, has run into stern resistance in New England, where civil rights groups are trying to ban the name because of allegedly racist overtones. Item: A young man who asked a Minnesota court to change his name...
What lamentable arrogance and condescension are displayed by Andrew Greeley in his item on celibacy [July 10]. Catholic priests may be freer to serve their people than married Protestant ministers, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they make themselves more available to their people. Having had dealings with both married Protestant ministers and Catholic priests, I would rather seek help from the former than the latter...
...largest treasures are not safe. Last month a quarter-ton stone figure of an ancient priest chewing coca, known as El Coquero and dating back some 3,000 years, vanished from its site in San Agustin in southwest Colombia. Ecuadorian officials are trying to retrieve an entire 11,000-item collection of Andean treasures that somehow managed to turn up in Milan and Turin, where they were being put up for sale...