Word: roman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...came along there had been large lobbying and education groups in the field for decades -- the National Right to Life Committee, the Human Rights Review, the annual antiabortion marches organized by Nellie Gray, which have been praised by recent Presidents. These were largely decorous undertakings with their roots in Roman Catholicism. Civil disobedience was not their style; it remains so little to their liking that the National Right to Life Committee newsletter never refers to the activities of Operation Rescue...
...white dinner jackets with black bow-ties, she frets over the success of her ball club and sips a cool drink. She exudes the air of either a colonial plantation owner, who cannot squeeze any more productivity out of the slaves who are cultivating the fields, or a Roman emperor who condescendingly passes judgment over her subjects at a gladiator's match...
Domino's Pizza spokesperson Kerry McNulty said the boycott threat was unfair. She said the money was a personal donation by Monaghan, who is a practicing Roman Catholic...
...obsessive parent-child relationship. National emotions swing between involvement and indifference, animosity and affection, pity and fear, longing and disgust. It is a tale of how the U.S. tried to re-create itself in the malleable Philippines, an accidental unit of 7,000 islands with little in common save Roman Catholicism and an ambiguous urge to be free. It is also the story of how the U.S., though it succeeded in imbuing the archipelago with aspects of its likeness, failed at imparting its democratic spirit. In In Our Image, the sins of the creator are amply reflected in the faults...
...affected by a growing accommodation between church and state in the officially atheistic nation. Last year's 1,000th-anniversary celebrations greatly enhanced the privileges of the Russian Orthodox Church. This year the long-suffering Jewish community opened its first school for rabbis in 60 years, and Lithuania's Roman Catholics got their first full lineup of bishops in 40 years. A similar renewal is taking place among the 55 million Muslims, who constitute the world's fifth largest Islamic population (after Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh and India). By some estimates, ^ Muslims will make up one-fourth of Soviet citizens...