Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rarely had so many politicians altered their positions so radically and so swiftly. As mail cascaded into their Capitol Hill offices, Senators and Representatives who had long opposed even the mildest gun-control legislation nimbly switched sides. "Times change," said Nebraska's Republican Senator Roman Hruska, once Capitol Hill's strongest opponent of controls, "and sometimes they change rapidly...
Place of Confrontation. Exercising sanctuary privileges will, at best, only delay the inexorable law. Yet many clergymen are delighted with the opportunity to use their houses of worship in what they feel is an openly defiant way of supporting dissent. Roman Catholic Monsignor George W. Casey of St. Brigid's Church in Boston says that he finds some comfort in the fact that draft resisters-most of them nonreligious-have sought the church "as a place of confrontation. Church has been fading from the sight of young America. We hear the word 'irrelevant' so often it makes...
...allowed to kick her religious habit and appear publicly in skirt and blouse? Yes, decided Los Angeles' progressive-minded Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, who last fall made a number of reforms in their way of life, including the right to wear civilian dress. Although other Roman Catholic orders have modified or dropped their habits without any trouble, none of the changes seemed to please Los Angeles' James Francis Cardinal Mclntyre. He threatened to dismiss the sisters from their teaching posts in parochial schools of his archdiocese. The nuns promptly appealed to the Vatican, which appointed...
...characters in Rosemary's Baby, Ira Levin's best-selling chiller about the powers of darkness at work in a Manhattan apartment building. Now Old Nick, along with a covey of attendant diabolists, is making Rosemary's life miserable in a film version by Polish Director Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water, Repulsion). Even readers of the book (2,300,000 copies) who know how Baby comes out are in for a pleasant surprise: the very real acting ability of Mia Farrow...
...happy pair moves in anyway and-see how groundless Hutch's fears were?-the funny old couple next door welcomes them with open arms. Guy, who is an actor, loves to go over and listen to Roman Castevet (Sidney Blackmer) talk about old times. Rosemary is more attracted to a girl of her own age who lives with the Castevets-it is a pity when she commits suicide by jumping out of the window. After that tragedy, the lonely Castevets grow closer than ever to Rosemary and Guy, whose acting career is suddenly beginning to go very well indeed...