Word: roman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thompson of Concord, New Hampshire, attended lectures on experimental philosophy at Harvard in the mid-18th century. After spying on America and defecting to England, Rumford conducted pioneering work in the caloric theory of heat. He later served the Bavarian government, receiving the title Count Rumford of the Holy Roman Empire...
...Vatican is not only boldly resisting trends in biological research and medicine but, in the case of a few practices commonly in use, also rejecting the opinions of numerous Roman Catholic moral theologians. The document's release quickly provoked widespread debate not only on the ethics of the reproductive techniques it discusses but on the propriety of the Vatican's attempt to influence public policy on a medical issue, particularly in pluralistic societies. Many Americans claimed the words from Rome would have little impact on daily practices...
...child for four years, went ahead with her decision to use in vitro fertilization with her husband's sperm for later implantation in a surrogate carrier. She has decided that she would leave the church rather than submit to the teaching. Says she: "I simply will not remain a Roman Catholic. Children are the No. 1 priority of my husband and me, and we're willing to sacrifice...
...Swaggart phenomenon is part of a wave of Protestant expansion across the traditionally Roman Catholic region. According to Brazil's Ecumenical News Agency, Latin American Protestants have increased in number from 12 million to 30 million since 1978. Most of them have joined Evangelical and Pentecostal groups rather than such older mainline denominations as the Presbyterians and Methodists. In El Salvador, Protestants claim 800,000 worshipers, more than double the number in 1980; in Costa Rica, they have increased by one-fifth, to 330,000, since...
Within the Roman splendors of his apartment, Morricone induces daily doses of therapeutic distress by getting down to work with the dawn. "Tell me," he challenges, "what other composers get up at 5 in the morning?" Morricone does not use his regal Steinway grand for composition, but sits over his score paper at a desk in his workroom. The room, kept locked against the incursions of four children, ages 20 to 30, who still come by and "steal my records," also accommodates a broken 17th century organ, a functioning studio-size recording console, piles of music books and tapes...