Word: romanism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
CULDESAC, an inventive exercise in macabre slapstick by Polish Director Roman Polanski, looks like Part 2 of a projected trilogy of terror that began with Repulsion. This time around, Polanski plays his ghoulish games on a desolate North Sea island whose sole inhabitants are a half-mad old fool (Donald Pleasence), his hot-blooded young wife (Francoise Dorleac) and two unexpected nighttime visitors...
Prominent religious thinkers, like Paul Tillich and Robert Mcaffee Brown, are usually invited to give the lectures. McCarthy, a Roman Catholic, is one of the few laymen ever invited...
Meeting last week for the first time as a regional legislature of their church, 210 U.S. Roman Catholic bishops cut loose with a thoroughly traditional attack on birth control, and then moved on to put an end to one of the most anachronistic of Catholic spiritual customs: compulsory abstinence from meat on Friday...
Brown, Novak & Napier sounds like a plausible name for a law firm; actually it is a winning combination at Stanford. Inspired by Presbyterian The ologian Robert McAfee Brown and Roman Catholic Philosopher Michael Novak, religion has become one of Stanford's most adventurous intellectual disciplines, and Dean of the Chapel B. Davie Napier has turned the once staid services at the pseudo-Roman esque Memorial Church into a continuing experiment in worship. The result is an enlightening case study of how Christianity on a secular campus can be imaginatively brought to life...
...archaeological irony. "Of the whole face of Herculaneum," he writes, "we have seen thus far only the chin." Systematic excavation has been halted since before the war. Most of Herculaneum still sleeps beneath millions of tons of volcanic stone; all of the forum, for instance, the heart of every Roman town, is completely enshrouded. "It seems incredible," Deiss concludes, "to discover a buried treasure...