Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the glaring lack of uniform standards across the country, most police recruits fit Dr. Rhead's prescription, as far as it goes. In Eastern and Midwestern cities, the typical recruit is a Roman Catholic of blue-collar background and Irish, Polish or perhaps Italian ancestry. Often, says Chicago Psychologist Arnold Abrams, he has been "exposed to an autocratic environment." Most recruits are eldest sons; most tend to be nervous around authority. In Detroit, says former Police...
Numerous passengers narrowly escaped a fall off the platform as they stepped back to appraise a statue of King Tutankhamen. Dramatized by artfully concealed spotlights and projectors were copies of treasures from four of the Louvre's main sections: French Medieval, Egyptian, Ancient Oriental and Greco-Roman. It was a sight to glad den any ordinary rider's eye, and even more pleased was the man behind the-innovation. He is André Malraux, Minister of Culture, and his efforts to re furbish the famed museum itself have been nicely complemented by the un derground mini-Louvre...
ROSEMARY'S BABY. Devil worship in Manhattan and other naughtiness are given loving attention by Director Roman Polanski and Actress Mia Farrow in this sometimes too faithful adaptation of Ira Levin's bestseller...
More and more U.S. Roman Catholic priests are giving up their parishes for secular life. The reasons are many: some have chafed too long under arbitrary authoritarian discipline; others have succumbed to love of a woman. Still others have, in the old-fashioned phrase, simply lost their faith. While the break with the ministry is still an emotionally harrowing experience for most, this growing battalion of unfrocked clerics are finding it easier to marry, raise a family and get a decent job. The ex-priests are no longer the pariahs of Christianity...
...notion that Americans are 'The New Romans" has been dealt with before in a variety of contexts. Most recently, a group of essayists put together a book by that name, describing the spread of American legions into Canada. In The American Empire, French Historian Amaury de Riencourt (The Coming Caesars) takes up the subject once again. De Riencourt specializes in sweeping, Toynbee-like historical patterns, especially symmetrical parallels between the Roman past and the American present. He has the indispensable arrogance of a born generalizer who, with mixed success, has assigned himself such breathtaking abstractions as The Soul...