Word: romane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Efforts to police the pappagalli in the past have failed, but now the Roman authorities are taking stern action. The police have assigned 100 special cops, operating in teams at tourist spots and equipped with walkie-talkies, to pinch the pinchers, whose sleights of hand may earn them up to six months in jail or $65 in fines. But there have been no arrests so far, and on several occasions the cops have been told bluntly by seemingly beleaguered beauties to mind their own business...
Their campuses are less than a mile apart, but Dublin's two major universities have long been separated by a bitter heritage of hate and suspicion. Trinity College (enrollment: 3,500) is Protestant, England-oriented, aristocratic. University College (7,325) is Roman Catholic, nationalist, middle class. Relations between the two are so frosty that, when the Irish government recently offered them joint use of a veterinary school, the colleges balked at sharing the same faculty and instead created overlapping, independent staffs. Now, however, Ireland's Ministry of Education has taken a major step toward ending the rivalry. Under...
Smoking pot may be against the law, but it is not necessarily a sin. That seems to be the consensus among Protestant and Roman Catholic clergy who have had any dealings with the marijuana-puffing youth of the turned-on generation...
...never punish [St. Paul] enough for making Christianity impolite, for saddling it with the nastiest traditions of the Old Testament: intolerance, brutality, provincialism. He was the first barker of the Greco-Roman world. Whenever I am at a loss for a scapegoat, I open the Epistles and am quickly reassured. I have my man, and he rouses me to a fury...
...vast improvement over the ignorance, superstition, violence and disease of earlier periods. They ask: Are we ready to scuttle the technology that has spread food, home ownership, comfort, education and lei sure beyond any precedent? Would we rather have lived under the laws of the Athenian Republic or the Roman Empire than under constitutions that give us habeas corpus, trial by jury, religious and intellectual freedom and the emancipation of women...