Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bowl, his ball handling was superb. Play after play, his fakes fooled NBC television cameramen so badly that they lost the action entirely. A 69-yd. Ohio State drive ended with Fullback Jim Otis scoring from the one; a 50-yd. drive to the Trojan 10 enabled Kicker Jim Roman to make good on a 26-yd. field goal with three seconds left and tie the score at halftime...
...Roman Catholic Church in the U.S. is destined to undergo several more years of turmoil, alienation and dissent...
...proposes that in Roman eyes Jesus was a dangerous political rebel who was executed by Pilate on the charge of sedition...
...first to make this case, but he has marshaled the best arguments for it. In Jesus and the Zealots (Scnbners; $7.95) and The Trial of Jesus of Nazareth (Stein & Day; $6.95), Brandon pictures Jesus as a politically aware activist vigorously working against the Palestinian "Establishment"-the Roman occupying forces and Jerusalem's collaborationist Jewish aristocracy. As a champion of the poor, says Brandon, Jesus went so far as to lead an abortive raid on the Temple treasury to dispossess its money-hungry directors. The raid, disguised in the Gospels as a one-man assault on the profane money changers...
...Zealots, and destroyed the city. In Rome, where Titus returned in triumph brandishing trophies from the ruined Temple, feelings were running high against Jewish intransigence in general and the Zealot rebellion in particular. In this climate of fear, argues Brandon, Mark wrote the first Gospel for the young Roman church. Because his audience was already suspect as subversive, Mark wrote his account of Christ's life with the implicit purpose of clearing Christians of any involvement in Jewish rebellion...