Word: monsignor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state of religious exaltation." Some who grasp those charged serpents will themselves incandesce in celebrity for a little while and then wink out (goodbye, Clifford Irving; goodbye, Nina van Pallandt): defunct flashlights, dead fireflies. Thus they will have obeyed Warhol's Law, first propounded by Andy Warhol, the monsignor of transience and junk culture: "In the future, everybody will be famous for at least 15 minutes." But many survive long after the deadline. Their 15 minutes stretch into years and years, until the public, whose adulation sometimes conceals a hard little rock of vindictiveness, wishes that, after...
That earnest prayer for the 165,000 striking coal miners was offered by Monsignor Charles Rice at a labor rally in Pittsburgh last week. His words perfectly reflected the miners' own mood in this long, three-month walkout: religious fervor, intense solidarity, a degree of self-righteousness, and a hint of violent passions as deep and often as murky as the mines themselves...
Because the method is "natural," it is acceptable to the Roman Catholic Church. Indeed, Monsignor Robert Deegan, of the Los Angeles archdiocese, actively lobbied to get the HEW study grant approved. Still, says Dr. Phyllis McCarthy, an investigator for the study, "some priests are skeptical about the method. They got burned by advising couples to use the rhythm system and don't want any more babies named after them...
Final results of the study, which is being conducted out of Los Angeles' Cedars Sinai Medical Center, will not be in until 1979. But early indications have been so promising that Monsignor Deegan is now establishing a center in Los Angeles for the dissemination throughout the world of information about fertility awareness. The name of the center: World Organization of the Ovulation Method Billings -or, for short. WOOMB...
There are the ones about a rapist who preyed on the elderly, the hood who stuffed a rival into a laundry dryer, a sort of Jack the Shaver who depilated his victims with a razor, and the tale about the monsignor who died in a brothel: the police dressed him and propped him in his car, which they parked at a shopping center. It was piously announced that the prelate had suffered a heart attack while reaching for his glove compartment...