Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though militant students have often shaken governments, particularly in the world's less stable areas, they have seldom actually brought them down. Yet last week, in stable, bourgeois Belgium, the government was toppled by students at the University of Louvain, the world's largest Roman Catholic university. The students' weapon: a major exacerbation of the longtime tension between Belgium's Dutch-speaking Flemish majority and its French-speaking Walloon minority...
...maiden voyage under the Israeli flag when disaster struck without warning or explanation. Hardly had search-and-rescue operations been mounted for the Dakar when next day the Minerve suffered a similar fate during a training exercise. The 850-ton French submarine, commissioned in 1964 and named after the Roman goddess of wisdom, left no more clues to what happened than the Dakar. Ruling out possible undersea disturbances radiating from an earthquake in Sicily about the same time, Israeli and French naval officials deduced that the two submarines experienced some major mechanical or electrical failure while submerged...
...contemplative orders of the Roman Catholic Church are in trouble. Despite an upsurge of new recruits in the years following World War II, such orders as the Trappists, Poor Clares and Carmelites have recently suffered a loss in numbers as a result of defections and a decline in novices...
Freud offended the hierarchs of all faiths by his dismissal of religion as a neurosis, and psychoanalysis is still frowned upon by Austria's Roman Catholic Church, even when it is practiced by unswervingly Catholic psychiatrists. But Dr. Frankl's Jewishness is not held against him by Catholics as it was against Freud and Adler. In his system there is such a big place for religion that he is a favorite of Salzburg's Archbishop Franz Jachym, who endorses his writings. To the extent that the church accepts Frankl, the Freudians and Adlerians tend to reject...
...Romans, by and large, adopted Greek styles as their own, became the world's first "antique" collectors by buying Grecian art. Workmen throughout the far-flung empire harked back to Periclean models, though the 2nd century Jupiter found in Belgium is Roman in its compact proportions. The Romans' greatest innovation was the realistic portrait, and their skills are powerfully summarized in a fleshy, glowering face, described by Yale Art Historian Sheldon Nodelman as "by far the most important of the Roman bronzes, one of the most striking pieces in the show." Though the portrait has not been formally...