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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...become less an expression of personal bitterness, a la Positively 4th Street, he appears to become more and more conscious of the distinction between himself and his persona--like Proust who, when he saw his readers approaching the early volumes of A la Recherche du Temps Perdu as a roman a clef, had his narrator relate an internal monologue in which he addresses himself as Marcel, then hastens to add, in parentheses, "if indeed the narrator of this novel can be called Marcel...
...Chicagoans in the Administration have numerous alumni allies in Congress: Senators Roman Hruska of Nebraska, Gale McGee of Wyoming, Charles Percy of Illinois and Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut; Representatives Abner Mikva of Illinois and Patsy Mink of Hawaii; and House Parliamentarian William Brown...
While remaining doctrinally conservative in matters sexual, the Roman Catholic Church in recent years has on a practical level adopted a more liberal attitude toward the sexual nature of man. If they did not exactly condone such sexual conduct as premarital intercourse, masturbation and active homosexuality, many confessors, theologians and pastoral counselors took a sympathetic view of the personal problems so often caused by the church's teaching against all three. Others went so far as to question whether some of these sexual activities were morally wrong at all. Last week the Vatican called for a halt to this...
...Doctrine of the Faith under a "mandate" from Pope Paul. Called a "Declaration on Certain Questions Concerning Sexual Ethics,"the statement took seven years to prepare and was reviewed and approved by Paul. It was not just a Vatican idea; instead, it was mostly a response to complaints from Roman Catholic bishops in many nations, particularly in the U.S., that the church was not providing sufficient guidelines for sexual behavior in the wake of the sexual revolution of the '60s and '70s. Relatively few bishops are theologians, and many have been confused and bothered by the support that...
...youngster becomes ill when the clinic is closed, he asks the parents to bring the child to his house. Though his main emphasis is on the ailing, he does not balk at providing free school physicals and shots for youngsters who cannot afford them. In only two areas does Roman Catholic Balthazar draw the line: he will not dispense birth control pills or perform abortions...