Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...centuries, countless thinkers have denounced patriotic pride for one of its unhappiest effects: the irrational hatred that one people aims at a "lesser" people. Arnold Toynbee attributes the death of Greco-Roman civilization to patriotic wars between city states-and failure to establish international law. Early Christians rejected patriotism on the ground that man's obligations are to God, and after that to all of humanity. A Jesuit general once called patriotism "the most certain death of Christian love." There is no question that chauvinism-hyperpatriotism-can be induced in any country, including a democracy, where truth...
This distrust he successfully communicated to his ten children, not one of whom ever deviated from the conservative faith of the father or from his staunch Roman Catholicism. "Perhaps the reason we did not rebel," thinks Buckley, "is that Father was a dissenter all his life. Had he been an establishmentarian, there might have been a greater impulse to rebel." In the influence that he exercised over his brood, until his death in 1958 at 77, Buckley Sr. bore considerable resemblance to that other patriarch of Irish descent, Joseph P. Kennedy. But beyond the Irishness, the Buckleys...
...bookish conservatism. Chambers, says Buckley, "was an anti-theory man, a poet-not an exegete." A line he once wrote to Buckley is engraved on his memory: "To live is to maneuver." And despite his devotion to conservatism, Buckley has learned to maneuver. He has urged his fellow Roman Catholics to moderate their hostility toward birth control and abortion, thereby alienating Brother-in-Law Bozell, who publishes the conservative Catholic magazine Triumph. Believing in the innocence of Edgar Smith, a convicted rapist now in the death house in Trenton, Buckley has done his level best to win him a retrial...
...worldwide assembly of Roman Catholic laymen last week urged the Pope to let Catholic couples decide for themselves whether or not to practice birth control...
...publishing a string of sexual scenes for the sake of titillation." For what other purpose then? Says Geis: "There is a perfectly legitimate public curiosity about what goes on behind the scenes." Not that people really find out what goes on in the Geis version of the roman è clef. The formula does not require that the novel be based even loosely on truth or, for that matter, on gossip...