Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While this wasn't especially upsetting, seeing the crowd behave as if they were watching a Roman spectacle was frightening. After the Good Guy had pinned the Bad Guy (everyone knows in advance which is which), he would look to the crowd for its verdict. As the crowd roared its merciless answer, the wrestler-turned-gladiator let his opponent have it in the chest...
...most part, though, the trip-as intended-was low-key and at times downright dull. Just as, it was noted, only a dish of spaghetti excites a Roman, it takes a good deal to turn the attention of other Europeans from their coq au vin, fish and chips or sauerbraten to any display of public fervor. It was therefore predictable that Richard Nixon's earnest pilgrimage stirred less excitement last week than the triumphant passages of his more glamorous predecessors, Eisenhower and Kennedy -or even than the European hegira early last month of Astronaut Frank Borman, fresh from orbiting...
...effect of the McLaren ukase is to send most Birmingham women seeking abortions to London if they can afford that or, if they cannot, to the local back-street abortionist. Much the same thing is happening in Liverpool, England's third-largest city, which has a 40% Roman Catholic population and many anti-abortion doctors...
...obedience do separately, cultivating interchurch fellowships throughout the state and fostering dialogue in the realm of faith and order." In the near future, the social-action programs of the Texas Catholic Conference will probably be merged with similar programs run by the council. Eventually, predicted San Antonio's Roman Catholic Archbishop Robert E. Lucey, the work of the new organization will extend into "the whole field of the church and society...
Stage-door Janies have always been more demonstrative than stage-door Johnnies. Juvenal railed bitterly against flirtatious Roman ladies in whose eyes any gladiator, however ugly, was "transformed into a Hyacinthus." No Ziegfeld girl ever inspired a male reaction remotely comparable to the mass hysteria of Sinatra's swooners in the 1940s or Elvis Presley's frantic fanatics in the 1950s. Such adulatory demonstrations were mild, however, compared with those of a new and even more liberated breed of female hero-worshipers. They are the "groupies." Their heroes are rock musicians-and their worship knows no bounds...