Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have presented a greater contrast. Thin to the point of ascetism, Pacelli towered over Spellman, whose round, beaming face invariably drew the adjective "cherubic." Yet when the chubby Yankee Irishman was consecrated a bishop in St. Peter's in 1932, he wore the same vestments that the patrician Roman had worn at his own consecration. Returning to the U.S., Spellman served as auxiliary bishop of Boston and two months after the elevation of Pius XII in 1939 was named Archbishop of New York (he was made a cardinal...
...thundered against concessions to the Communist countries, urging a role for the U.S. in Viet Nam as far back as the mid-'50s. Indeed, his call last year for nothing less than an Allied victory in Viet Nam brought him under attack by opponents of the war. As Roman Catholic vicar of U.S. armed forces, he visited the battlefields in World War II, making it a habit-up through his trip to Viet Nam last year -to spend Christmas with American troops overseas...
...changed the world by changing people's attitudes," says Polish Director Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water). "When they are born with a TV set in their room-well-you can't fool them any more." Or at least, it might be added, not in the same way. Director Richard Lester, who got his start on TV, believes that television's abrupt leap from news about Viet Nam to Corner Pyle to toothpaste ads expands people's vision. "TV is best at those sudden shifts of reality. TV, not Last Year at Marienbad, made the audience...
Earlier yesterday two Boston police served a verbal warrant to Bob Roman and Gary Senderoff, owner of the Like Nothing Else store on Charles St. Roman, who works in the store, said that he sold a plainclothesman a copy of the Avatar on Tuesday...
...Roman said he knew that the man was a policeman, but "didn't expect him to find it obscene...