Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marry at the age of 25 or over stay married. Even so, there is a growing trend for couples to split up in middle age after the kids have left home and husband and wife have discovered that they no longer can, or want to, get along. Though Roman Catholics get fewer divorces than others because of their church's proscriptions, they are not very far behind the Protestant breakup rate because of desertions, separations and annulments...
...supposed to be just a quick visit. But the Roman holiday was such fun that Jacqueline Kennedy stayed on for nearly a week, fox hunting in the nearby countryside, shopping at the high-fashion house of Princess Irene Galitzine, and visiting some of her other noble friends. In a cape and a white chiffon gown, she attended a dinner party at the 15th century palazzo of Prince Aspreno Colonna, next day bought toys for Caroline and John-John. Flying back to Switzerland to rejoin the family ski outing at Gstaad, Jackie took some other special gifts: a rosary and Vatican...
...United Federation of College Teachers' strike against the nation's largest Roman Catholic university, St. John's, has wheezed along for more than a month now with both sides playing a game of verbal ping pong and not much else...
...Michigan has had a Jesuit priest teaching Hinduism and Buddhism, while at Wisconsin a course on the Reformation is taught by a Jew, another on the philosophy of religion by an avowed agnostic. Stanford's religion course on ecumenism is taught jointly by Presbyterian Robert McAfee Brown and Roman Catholic Michael Novak...
...Initial Trouble. The tip is in the opening line of the novel. The initials of Ennis' corps, A.V.C., are an acronym of the opening lines of the Aeneid-Arma virumque cano. Ennis is intended to be seen as Aeneas, founder of the Roman race after the fall of Troy. The mock heroics are well sustained, though Burgess now modestly sees the Virgilian parallel as a "tyro's method of giving his story a backbone," as Joyce used the Odyssey to underpin Ulysses. But Burgess is not Virgil any more than Joyce was Homer. His hero loses nothing...