Word: roman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...From his book on growing up in a Roman Catholic family in Washington: "Country, family, and faith these are the things worth dying for; these are the things worth fighting for; these are the things worth living...
...three centuries, the Quebecois -- descendants of France's attempt to plant a North American colony -- maintained a society that was rural, Roman Catholic and inward-looking. But in the 1960s, as Quebecois moved into business and the professions, Quebecois separatists raised their sights. They now control two parties of their own -- the Parti Quebecois, which contests (and sometimes wins) Quebec provincial elections, and the newer Bloc Quebecois, which holds seats in the national Parliament. French Canadians are intelligent and entrepreneurial. When it comes to politics, they're blowhards, endlessly recounting their frustrations, many of them imaginary. Compared with other minorities...
...Turin, leader of the country's Jewish Fascists, remained a true believer until the very end -- perhaps even as he was shot dead by an SS officer while trying to escape to Switzerland in September 1943. A half-Jewish writer whose nom de plume was Pitigrilli converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Fascist spy; he had once lectured successfully in Warsaw, and his name, curiously, lives on as a Polish slang term for something suspect or obscene...
...Dublin and London, carrying placards reading RAPISTS-1, WOMEN-0 and IRELAND DEFENDS MEN'S RIGHT TO PROCREATE BY RAPE. Human-rights advocates declared that the ruling violated a European Community law allowing citizens to travel to another E.C. nation to obtain legally available services such as abortion. Roman Catholic Ireland is alone among the 12 E.C. members in imposing a total ban on abortion...
Commenting on society seems to be an age-old need. "It's not new," says Professor of Sociology James A. Davis. "There's medieval graffiti and there's Roman graffiti--it seems to be something about human nature...