Word: roman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Will Mary-loving Pope John Paul II cap his career by declaring a new dogma? A recent anthology from a small Roman Catholic publisher in Santa Barbara, Calif., predicts that as early as next year, John Paul will exercise his power of infallibility to declare Mary the Co-Redemptrix of humanity and "Mediatrix" of all graces. That would make her a participant in salvation--along with her son Jesus Christ. There has long been talk of such a move, since devotion to Catholicism's Queen of Heaven is never far from the heart of this Pontiff...
...sympathize with Sheila Rauch Kennedy in the breakdown of her marriage to Joe Kennedy II [NATION, May 12], but I regret her views on the Roman Catholic Church's process of annulment. Your story said Rauch, who is protesting the annulment of her 12-year marriage, decries "the annulment procedure's dishonesty in ruling that a once happy marriage never existed in the eyes of God." Almost half the marriages in the U.S. end in divorce, including those of Catholics. In recent decades, more annulments have been granted because of a deeper understanding of the spiritual and emotional maturity required...
...earlier America, there wasn't even much past to remember; there are no Puritan monuments, for instance, except for individual gravestones. Memory had to be imported. This was very much the point of the style that became the official architectural language of the Revolution: neoclassicism, based on ancient Roman models...
...brought it in was Thomas Jefferson, in his role as architect. Educated in Williamsburg, Virginia, he despised its provincial-English buildings as "rude, mis-shapen piles." Jefferson found his model for a new American architecture in the south of France: a Roman temple, the so-called Maison Carree, or Square House, which he felt exemplified the candid virtues of the old Roman state. It became the basis of his design for the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, completed in 1799. It was the first temple-form state building to be erected anywhere in 1,500 years--new because...
Just, a Washington journalist in the early '60s, writes from experience. But there is no master clef to this roman. Axel reads like a composite rather than a copy. He has spent more than half his years in chronic pain caused by wounds suffered during World War II. His marriage to Sylvia, a wellborn New Yorker and poet, was a mismatch. "Government's the opiate of the patrician masses," she tells him shortly before walking out. Her parting shot is that Axel, former oss operative and friend of Presidents, has "too many secrets, not enough mystery...