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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this book really necessary? Thanks to massive publicity, everyone knows all too well that on Aug. 9, 1969, Actress Sharon Tate and four others were savagely murdered in a Los Angeles home leased by Tate and her husband, Director Roman Polanski. Early next morning a well-to-do L.A. couple, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, were similarly butchered. Because of the prominence of the first victims, plus Polanski's identification with macabre films (Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby), the killings produced a mudslide of speculative explanations: drugs, kinky sex, human sacrifice. When suspects were arrested four months later, reality proved...
Thieves last December stole more than 5600 ancient Greek and Roman coins, valued between $1 million and $5 million, from the Fogg Art Museum's coin room...
Moral Order. The prevailing tone has always been fiercely, unmistakably Irish and Roman Catholic. Despite its insularity, the community used to feel that it had clout in the region's politics. But one of its most illustrious heroes, Mayor James Michael Curley, is long dead, and former House Speaker John McCormack is now retired. Ted Kennedy, another hero, is now seen as a traitor because he supports busing. Even the church seems in alien hands; where once there were Irish-American cardinals, now there is Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, who preaches that the integration order is moral and should...
...Rites. So far as other Christian churches were concerned, some bishops seemed more anxious for closer cooperation than for recruits. Archbishop Samuel Carter of Kingston, Jamaica, even called for "corporate reunion" between some Protestant churches and the Roman Catholic Church on a regional basis. "Full agreement in doctrine is not needed before some measure of intercommunion is allowed," noted Carter, who urged greater development of joint Protestant-Catholic services. Regional union, he suggested, would eventually mean the incorporation of "new and distinct rites with disciplines different from the Latin Church. This would involve married clergy of new Western rites coexisting...
...hands wring fervidly and sweat glistens on his forehead. Inevitably, questions arise about such an intense, complex and ambitious young man, and pop-psyching Jerry Brown has become a statewide pastime. There are those who see Brown as a humorless, intellectual fanatic who first tried submerging himself in the Roman Catholic Church and then, with equally uncritical fervor, opted for the ego and power trip of politics. Others speculate that his drive is pure Freud, the compulsive, humorless, self-righteous attempt of a quiet young man to surpass the booming, back-slapping old pol who happened to be his father...