Word: meats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some 22,000 years ago, in southwestern France, a band of Stone Age hunters camped the year round beneath a rocky overhang while hunting the locally migrating herds of reindeer on which their lives depended. They cooked the reindeer meat over hearths scooped from the ground; made clothes and leanto shelters from the skins; and from the bones and antlers cut out spear points, awls, and beads...
...dawn to recite Matins and Lauds before Mass, spend four hours or more daily in choral prayer, observe silence after the last service of the day, Compline. Stricter congregations, such as the Trappists and the Camaldolese, rise for prayer around 2 in the morning, keep perpetual silence, abstain from meat entirely...
...little more dark meat, a little more light...
...CHURCH DISCIPLINE. The council is expected to revise the already lax rules that govern fasts and Friday abstinence from meat. The canon laws that govern the antiquated Index of Forbidden Books will be brought up to date; some bishops have asked that the Index be abolished. The council may recommend that greater attention be paid to science and modern teaching methods in seminaries. Canon law relating to impediments to marriage will probably be reformed-although the church is likely to make a strong reaffirmation of its stand against artificial birth control. Presumably, the council will take a stand against sins...
There are still crusades in the press but the muckraker's tone of high-collar righteousness seems out of key in today's more complicated world, in which Americans have found that they have more to worry about, from Berlin to Laos, than civic corruption or spoiled meat. Laws and the nation's conscience have eliminated most of the outrages the muckrakers attacked. But the Weinbergs' book is a readable reminder of the days when a handful of serious scolds could make a whole nation feel as embarrassed as a small boy caught with dirt behind...