Word: roman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Roman Martinez...
...then there's Washington's Metro, a disgustingly clean and predictable subway. There, faux-Roman arches make every station into a cavernous Pantheon. Which would be fine, had the Romans built with concrete, but they knew better. Washington's Metro is the Mather House of subways--simultaneously large, impressive, cold and ugly. All the same, it has redeeming features--like the Sonny Rollins look- and sound-alike who plays atop Farragut North or the longest escalator outside of Russia at Wheaton. But these amenities do little to compensate for its reigning hobgoblin, a gray-grim consistency...
...demands and his simultaneous patience and compassion are crucial to the intimacy that so many establish with this long gone man. The promises he makes in the Gospel of John, in the resonant (and quite literal) King James translation, have strengthened endangered men and women from the terrors of Roman martyrdom till today--"Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you...that where I am, there...
...called one's mother's son, as opposed to one's father's, was often an implication of bastardy, or at least a sign that one's paternity was unknown, whether divine or not. Early opponents likewise suggested that Miriam had conceived Jesus with a Roman soldier, Panthera. His childhood may well have been clouded by questions about his paternity...
...Catholic, I am ashamed of the actions of the Roman Catholic Church and its hospital systems, which proscribe abortion and other reproductive services, including birth control, morning-after pills and sterilization [HEALTH, Nov. 15]. The essence of Catholic teachings is "Follow your conscience." Along with the people who embrace other faiths, Catholics of conscience deplore the church's attempt to force them to do its will. CORINNE SABO San Antonio, Texas...