Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...City's begins next September, Chicago's started last winter, and 400-odd others are under way. This year, for the first time, the Federal Government is awarding two grants specifically in the field, to help plan model courses in Bedford, Mass., and New Orleans. Even the Roman Catholic Church, which hitherto has given the subject a wide berth, is taking the plunge. The New York Archdiocese has prepared a "Program of Family Life Education" for its 400 parishes. Catholic-run Fordham University will offer next September a series of lectures and discussions about...
...only head of state among the guests, De Gaulle rated the most elaborate welcome at the airport, including a 21-gun salute, a bigger limousine, a larger motorcycle escort. Television cameras zeroed in on him, and Roman crowds shouted, "Viva De Gaulle!" As the guests and their Italian hosts walked from a ceremony in the Palazzo dei Conservatori through Michelangelo's Piazza del Campidoglio, the other European leaders and Eurocrats trailed behind le grand Charles like captive barbarians in one of Caesar's triumphal parades...
Oblivious to the political troubles of the Middle East (see THE WORLD), a group of Roman Catholics, Moslems and Jews gathered in Paris last week for an amicable discussion of how they might attain common understanding...
Died. Canon Lionel Groulx, 89, Roman Catholic priest and early force behind French Canadian nationalism, a longtime (1915 to 1948) history professor at the University of Montreal who in lectures, countless articles and 30 books preached the revival of French Canadian civilization "contaminated by the Protestant and Saxon atmosphere," and advocated a Canada composed of virtually autonomous states; of a cardiac arrest; in Vaudreuil...
...first freshet of his verse. His poems were blocked with a deliberate opaque quality, as if he feared that clarity were a sign of mediocrity. Still, he seemed stimulated by restraint. He emerged from Kenyon summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa and class valedictorian. He also emerged a Roman Catholic convert and a husband...