Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LOOT. Black comedy has spawned black farce, and this is a saucy, irreverent, unremittingly amusing play that spews its lightly poisoned darts at freshly dead mothers, dutiful fathers, marriage, the Roman Catholic Church and police brutality. As a birdseed-brained flatfoot from Scotland Yard, George Rose pilfers the show...
...hears the war cry, "Sock it to 'em, Bobby!" (which has a sexual connotation to some youngsters), and he does. Bobby, 42, can be less formal than Jack, who was also 42 eight years ago but felt that he had to convince voters of his maturity. As Roman Catholicism is no longer a handicap in American politics, neither is relative youth-both thanks to J.F.K...
Underground Governor. Then, in a far more shattering challenge to Puerto Rican tradition, Sánchez announced to his Roman Catholic constituency a year ago that he was divorcing his wife of 30 years to marry a beautiful younger woman, Jeannette Ramos, 35. At the same time, he said he would retire after his current term. The angry reaction virtually drove Sánchez underground for a time. During last summer's plebiscite campaign over Puerto Rico's legal status, Muñoz, now 70 and in semi-retirement as a senator, came back into the arena...
...January, moved alone into a downtown Prague hotel and began working 18-hour days on his reforms. Inevitably, since he wants to transform Czechoslovak society within the wide bounds of social ism, he is compared to the 15th century Czechoslovak Theologian Jan Hus, who tried to reform the Roman Catholic Church from within but saw his followers break away and form their own movement. Hus was burned at the stake. Dubček does not expect any such fate-but he is feeling plenty of heat because of the course on which he has launched Czechoslovakia...
...used against the character of our socialist sys tem." As for the students' protest against police brutality during the rioting, the paper came straight to the point. "When chopping wood," it said, "splinters must fly." The students got a new ally, how ever, in Poland's Roman Catholic Episcopate, which broke its silence on the outbursts by protesting the government's "brutal use of force...