Word: manus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...played out against the right backdrop: Irish locations, filmed lovingly by Gerry Fisher, and a cast of splendid faces, as hard and gnarled as blackthorn walking sticks. As directed by Jack Gold, Catholics fairly aches with monkish verisimilitude. When Kinsella's arrival at the abbey prompts Father Manus (a delightful cameo by Cyril Cusack) to rustle up a feast of fresh salmon, the viewer can almost taste...
...legal precedents for discrimination against women date back to the beginnings of Western law itself.* In the classic era of Athens, women fitted approximately the same category as slaves. Early Roman law candidly referred to the "perpetual tutelage of women" and considered them to be under the manus (hand) of their fathers or husbands-one basis for the custom of bestowing the "hand" of a daughter in marriage. Though later Roman law began to extend a few rights to women, the coming of the Dark Ages took them back to the status of chattels. Passing through canon law into English...