Word: romane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group spent much of the summer rebuilding a 300-foot synagogue, the largest early synagogue known and repairing a Roman gymnasium, an out standing example of the Baroque characteristics of Roman architecture...
...cover on the exploding drug culture, BEHAVIOR studied how the young increasingly tune out a world they cannot comprehend. Hardly a week has gone by without an EDUCATION story on student protest, including the cover story last spring on the strike at Harvard. The rebellion within the Roman Catholic Church, the demands by black militants for white reparations have been regular RELIGION topics. An entirely new section-ENVIRONMENT-was organized to cope with the tide of concern over mindless ravaging of our natural resources. TIME'S ESSAY section has examined the clamor over chemical warfare as well...
...pressure against the less intelligent. This pressure has been responsible for the evolutionary improvement of the human species throughout time." Indeed, evolutionary chance rather than human design accounts, in Darlington's view, for the entire spectrum of human intellectual progress. One example he gives is the celibacy of Roman Catholicism, a medieval practice. By preventing the inbreeding that this ruling class might otherwise have practiced, it compelled the steady recruitment of hybrids into the church, in a diversity as wide and invigorating as medieval society itself...
...since Vatican II had so broad an assembly of prelates, priests and theologians converged on Rome. Never, in modern times, had the seat of the Roman Catholic Church itself been under such combined attack from visitors. At official meetings of bishops and theologians and at a completely unofficial assembly of priests, the central if subtle topic of discussion in Rome this week will be the authority of Pope Paul VI -and the possibility of limiting...
...from fading into historical limbo, however, Mary Queen of Scots projected herself dramatically into the royal and religious tumult of the 16th century. In death as in life, she was sometimes reviled as a scheming whore, sometimes revered as a misunderstood martyr to her Roman Catholic faith. But she was invariably regarded as fascinating. Antonia Fraser's overlong but richly readable biography demonstrates that Mary's great fascination continues unabated...