Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PALM SUNDAY SPECIAL (NBC, 11 a.m.-noon). Roman Catholic Mass telecast live from St. John the Evangelist Church m Deer Park, Ohio...
This past winter, at their monastery near St. Louis, the Roman Catholic Redemptorist Fathers put into operation an electronic data-processing service de signed to provide "a 71-facet view of each practicing Catholic." Pastors who want to make use of the service must distribute a questionnaire to their faithful, then wait for the Redemptorists to feed the answers into an IBM System 360 computer. The 180-page printout that the machine delivers gives the pastor a cybernetic summary of his parishioners' religious attitudes...
...which is interested only in itself is worse than vanity; it is essentially incestuous, and throughout a distinguished career worked unceasingly to bring Christianity in tune with the secular realities of the times. A fervent ecumenicist, he called for an end to divisive tensions between Christians and Jews, between Roman Catholics and Protestants. Christianity, he argued, could only survive by bringing "new and deeper satisfaction to the human spirit...
...father image is only an illusion. The Roman collar is as big a put-on as his accent and his wig. Under them is an effete, seething schizoid (Rod Steiger) who can kill when he assumes an identity other than his own. But who is he? New York's police assign a green, gawky Jewish detective (George Segal) to find the answer. After eyeballing the first victim, Segal promptly advances a pop-psych theory to the press: the murderer, he argues, is a mother hater who takes Mom for a slay ride every time he garrotes a middle-aged...
Among Women Only is a wonderful tour de force about the self-made woman. The heroine is a Turin gamine with enough brains and beauty to make good in the silky Roman world of couture. She knows her men well, and her willingness to share their beds implies no regard for their superiority. She is the novel's narrator, but the disguise is transparent: it is still Pavese speaking. His observations about women are cutting, as when a restless wife concludes: "Living is really putting up with someone else and going to bed with him, whether you feel like...