Word: licitness
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...their five days, whether their activities have been licit or illicit, cultural or psychedelic, they dutifully turn up at the R&R center for the trip back to Viet Nam, tired, probably broke, but almost certainly happy -or at least, happier...
...must carry his Selective Service notification "at all times." Since some 75 young Americans burned their draft cards in Central Park during the antiwar weekend, the FBI set about tracking down the culprits. Many of them, it turned out, still had their cards; they had been burning licit scraps of notepaper. One readily identifiable card burner was Northwestern University Political Science Researcher Gary Rader, 23, a reservist in an Illinois Special Forces unit, who wore his green beret and Class A uniform while he burned his draft card in Central Park before newspaper cameras. FBI agents arrested Rader last week...
Paying an Indemnity. Another theologian intrigued by the idea of trial marriages is William Hamilton of Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, one of the leading "Death-of-God" thinkers, who suggests that a betrothal period in which sexual relations are licit would actually be in accord with the marital patterns that prevailed in the time of Christ. Under early Jewish custom, couples who became betrothed often lived as man and wife, without being required to enter permanent marriage. By this custom, if either party objected to formalizing the union, it could be dissolved by a religious court...
...commission members include doctors, moralists, sociologists and population experts from a dozen countries, nine from the U.S. Among them are those who favor "the pill" as a licit method of birth limitation, such as Canon Louis Janssens of the University of Louvain in Belgium, and those who oppose it, such as Monsignor George Kelly of New York's Archdiocesan Family Life Bureau. But some Catholics who want a modification of the church's position on birth control charge that the membership has been stacked in favor of the status quo. Recently, two of England's best-known...
...WEDNESDAY. Sandy Dennis looks as licit as a child with an ice-cream cone, but she is the Other Woman in a hilariously illicit schedule of sex on the one-day-a-week plan...