Word: pills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latest encyclical vetoing birth control [Aug. 2] is offered as a reaffirmation of the sacredness of human life as based on truths of divine and natural law. Though very reasonable in tone, there are moments in the document when a faint note of hysteria can be detected. The pill, writes the Pope, might lead to infidelity, loss of respect for women, and could even precipitate political anarchy. However real this social danger may be in the modern world, it is a mistake to make discussion of it depend on teachings of divine and natural law about the sacredness of life...
Pope Paul VI announced yesterday that the Catholic Church will continue its traditional ban on birth control for the members of the faith. In the encylical letter stating the position of the Pope, the contraceptive pill and all other mechanical and chemical means of birth control were ruled out and the rhythm method, the only previously accepted method for birth control in the church, was given limited endorsement...
...Beatles with their highly contrived messages. Its just like Dylan, he can say in a few words what it would take Janis Ian a whole song to get at. I've only recently begun to listen to Dylan's songs closely and they're very literate. Like Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat. its comic and intelligent. very good as literature." All this delivered in the soft slurring curiously exciting working-class London accent...
...most critical points for both Government and business, since this involves broad questions of social needs and consumer demand. Even at the height of the population explosion, the U.S. population rate was one thing that forecasters were able to project pretty well. Now, with the advent of the pill, economists may find it more difficult to plot future family formations accurately until a new pattern is established. And it is perfectly possible that pill makers may yet underestimate demand for their product...
...pontifical birth-control commission, which recommended by a 4-to-1 majority that the church relax its traditional opposition to contraception (TIME, April 28, 1967). In its final form, the Pope's pronouncement would have outlawed any mechanical or chemical form of birth control, including the Pill. In effect, it would have held the church to the judgment on procreation handed down by Pope Pius XI in 1930-that "any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offense against...