Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sense of guilt, Sheen says, the Roman Catholic Church can lead him to God-through confession, absolution and penance. "There are many souls stretched out on psychoanalytic couches today who would be far better off if they brought their consciences to a confessional box . . . The very passivity ... is symbolic of the patient's irresponsibility, which the whole theory of Freud assumes. It is in striking contrast to the man who says, not 'Oh what a fool I have been,' but 'God, be merciful to me a sinner...
...Killian, an old M.I.T. man himself, was taking over one of the foremost technical institutions in the world. It consisted of a student body of 4,500, a faculty of 1,000, and a compact, impressive campus of Roman revival and modern buildings across the Charles River from Boston. M.I.T. had come a long way since its opening classes...
Screamed New York City's Local 555 of the Teachers' Union, C.I.O.: "The bill [will] let loose a reign of repression and fear . . . Legislators [have turned] these last hours of the legislative session into a Roman holiday thirsting for victims." The American Labor Party promised a test of the law in the courts at first chance. Said Senate Minority Leader Elmer F. Quinn: "We are burning down the barn to get rid of a couple of mice...
...Folger's boiler room as overflow dressing quarters, were The Masquers of Amherst College, alma mater of the library's late founder, Oil Millionaire Henry Clay Folger. As a London director of 1600 would have it, they performed without sets, in frilly Elizabethan costumes instead of Roman togas. One non-authentic touch: girls were cast in the two feminine roles. The program explained: "We have somehow lost the knack of training juveniles to play female parts...
...counsel for the State Transit Commission, a job at $25,000 yearly as czar of labor relations in Manhattan's garment industry. He was still faultlessly tailored, urbane and worldly. In 1942, after his marriage to Betty had also ended in divorce, Jimmy, 60, went back to the Roman Catholic Church. "The glamor of other days I have found to be tinsel," he later said...