Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roman Jakobson, Samuel Hazzard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and General Linguistics, is retiring...
...Separation of Church and State filed suit in U.S. district court to prevent the 1967 reissue, in a slightly larger version, of last year's Christmas stamp, a Madonna and Child portrait by 15th century Flemish Artist Hans Memling. The suit charged that O'Brien, a Roman Catholic, is, in effect, proselytizing for his faith...
Except for such compelling reasons as scandal, heresy or outright incompetence, a Roman Catholic bishop is almost never separated from his see. For the past seven months, however, the Most Rev. Nicholas T. Elko, Ruthenian-rite bishop of Pittsburgh, has been in Rome, barred by his church superiors from returning to his diocese. The case of Bishop Elko, who describes his situation as "exile," casts fascinating light on Catholicism's current internal stresses-and on the problems of its little-known Eastern-rite churches...
...Zagreb, headquarters for his crusade, he was greeted by church officials with gifts of bread and salt-a Yugoslav symbol of welcome-and quickly became known as "Gospodin Billy (Mister Billy)." In pouring rain, at a soccer field owned by a local Roman Catholic seminary (the government barred Graham from conducting his crusade in a public stadium), he spoke through a translator to a huddled crowd that represented more than one-tenth of Yugoslavia's 20,000 Protestants. A sodden banner proclaimed in Serbo-Croatian, "Jesus said: I am the way, the truth, and the life." Graham skirted politics...
Bertolt Brecht, on whom Ustinov relies heavily for his inspiration, was content with the Thirty Years' War for Mother Courage. Unknown Soldier gobbles up 2,000 years of battle history, from Roman times to the present. Small wonder that digestive torpor soon sets in. Ustinov's hero is an unknown soldier who is always dying just before his recurringly pregnant wife can give birth. Like Brecht, Ustinov appears to believe that war is a continuation of the class struggle. The mighty spill the blood of the lowly in a kind of cruel game, a black farce...