Word: roger
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...Gaulle is really Jewish. So are Konrad Adenauer, Queen Elizabeth, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Francisco Franco and Fidel Castro, and so was John F. Kennedy. That, at least, is what it says in Les Juifs (The Jews), a new novel about world Jewry, "known and unknown," by French Satirist Roger Peyrefitte, 57, whose Keys of Saint Peter was attacked as "lewdly libelous" by the Vatican in 1956 and promptly sold half a million copies in Italy and France. The Jews may do equally well, largely because France's mighty De Rothschilds brought suit to get the book banned in France...
...century of Cimabue and Giotto, of St. Francis, St. Dominic and St. Thomas: an epoch of religious renascence that brought forth two major religious orders and the last great golden flower of Scholastic philosophy. But it was also the age of Marco Polo, Charles of Valois and Roger Bacon: an epoch of magnificent secular energy that propelled the rise of the middle classes and the independent city states, divided Italy between the party of the Pope (Guelph) and the party of the Emperor (Ghibelline) and embroiled Italians in a century-long civil war that concluded with the collapse...
...reference to Roger Barr's judgment [June 18] of the festival of "happenings" that we presented at the American Artists Center in Paris, we would like to state how much we, in turn, disagree with his obsolete thinking. The art of revolt and hallucinations, the awareness and new meaning of freedom, which are coming out of the happenings produced in Paris, New York, Amsterdam, Stockholm or Tokyo-all that is too much for Professor Barr. But for us, it's only a beginning...
...trust between man and man and a civilized respect for contracts. Some clergymen are a bit embarrassed that in a national rating of 42 types of credit risks, the clergy ranked a mediocre 17th (best risks are business executives, worst are farm laborers). Union Theological Seminary's Professor Roger Shinn says that the key to the moral issue is whether credit enhances or restricts personal freedom. "Debt is wrong if it overburdens and blocks a person and destroys his freedom to act," says Shinn. "It is also wrong if it is used for self-indulgence or without intent...
...months to move into Vienna, Antwerp, Madrid and Barcelona. In recent months, Manhattan's Marine Midland entered Europe for the first time, Manhattan's Chemical Bank went into Asia, and Chicago's Continental Illinois bought interests in banks in five countries from Argentina to Zambia. Says Roger Damon, president of the First National Bank of Boston, which has eleven foreign branches: "International banking has suddenly become the glamorous side of the banking business...