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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attended the ill-fated reception with her husband Yoshimoto, 57. Etsuko was released on Wednesday night, but Yoshimoto remained. On Thursday she attempted to hand a packet of stomach tablets to the Red Cross workers who were acting as go-betweens, with a note addressed to her husband in Roman alphabet. Added to it was the single Japanese word, ganbatte. It means "hang in there...
...next generation's trivia question. A case in point is Miraculous Medals of the Virgin Mary. Forty years ago, the demure images of the Virgin atop the globe, distributed at First Communions and spelling bees and treasured thereafter, could be found around the necks of a veritable legion of Roman Catholics. Today they have fallen so far from favor that their mention draws blank looks from some Catholic Gen-Xers. Why? Inhibitions unintentionally fostered by the Second Vatican Council may have had something to do with it. And certain women, writes author Sally Cunneen, were "inoculated against" the Virgin...
...first codices had another, equally historic impact: they gave upstart Christianity an edge over Roman paganism. While pagan scholars stuck with their scrolls like modern Luddites refusing to embrace E-mail, liberal Christians leaped at the efficiencies and portability of books. The result, argues Jack Miles, a former Jesuit who won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1995 book, God: A Biography, was a "technological advantage" for early Christianity. It was too much of one for the Roman Emperors, who quickly developed their own innovation: book burning...
...image of a literal planetary nervous system was laid out a half-century ago as a kind of prophecy by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the Jesuit mystic whose writings were banned by the Roman Catholic Church. Teilhard envisioned the technological evolution of a "noosphere"--the "thinking envelope of the Earth." The noosphere, he believed, entails a "sort of etherized universal consciousness" that will lead us, at last, to an era of brotherly love. Needless to say, Teilhard has a following...
...sadly disappointed in your one-paragraph Milestone on the passing of Joseph Cardinal Bernardin [NOTEBOOK, Nov. 25]. In the past 30 years, he changed the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S., helping it to be more inclusive. Cardinal Bernardin greatly affected the life of all Chicagoans of every denomination, as shown by the nearly 100,000 people paying their respects at his wake. At one time or another he was mentioned as a possibility to be the first Pope from America. Your issue was full of military scandal, technologic equipment and even more reporting on O.J. Simpson. I feel...