Word: romanism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Pilate, in which Christ tells the Roman procurator that power must crumble before truth. Pilate, a baffled autocrat who suffers from psychosomatic headaches, asks the same question that is recorded in the New Testament: "What is truth?"*His prisoner, who is pictured as a man shrewd in his simplicity, replies: "The truth now is that your head aches. It aches so hard that you are thinking of death. And I've unwillingly become your executioner...
...deduced from flying and talking with the men on dangerous missions. On the average, they showed less reaction to stress than do draftees undergoing basic training at Fort Dix, NJ. When the stress and danger were real, the men suppressed their anxiety and related reactions. One man, an unquestioning Roman Catholic, was convinced that God would look after him. Another, with a parimutuel mentality, had painstakingly taken the reported casualties and calculated the chance that any one man would be killed or injured on any single day. The risk, he concluded, was so slight that he could stop worrying...
...Messiaen's use of bird song in his work seems at once avant-garde and traditional, the paradox is typical. He is a fervent Roman Catholic who feels a primitive reverence for nature, a musical innovator who retains his childhood love for Mozart and Chopin. Although he stands aloof from the factions of the music scene, he is a teacher and champion of such different composers as Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen...
Catholics & Conscience. The pill poses two grave moral problems. The first affects Roman Catholics and, for different theological reasons, the smaller number of Orthodox Jews. Not until 1930 did the Vatican modify the Augustinian rule that sex must be for procreation, when Pope Pius XI approved the rhythm method. The Vatican has banned all mechanical and chemical contraception. But Dr. Rock, an unswerving Catholic, has been arguing ever since he sired the pill that its use imitates nature-which occasionally, but only occasionally, makes a woman skip ovulation-and that it should therefore be approved by the Vatican...
Latin America counts 2,000,000 pill users, a remarkably large number considering its Roman Catholic heritage and low income levels. But that is still less than 5% of the fertile women. Among the masses, baby follows baby with such deadly rapidity that Colombian women crouch on the ground to abort themselves with sharp sticks. In Chile, the victims of bungled abortions occupy 20% of the beds in maternity wards, use up 27% of the transfusion blood. The situation became so serious that four years ago, with a high death rate among women who left five to ten orphans behind...