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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only that violence is suddenly more explicit--it is certainly that--but now it is also expertly crafted. Roman Polanski is simply too technically proficient to be dismissed as a dealer in shock value. Sam Peckinpah is not just fascinated by violence, he is good...
Ireland has been plagued by bombings and riots since the deaths of the 13 Londonderry civilians. Last Sunday about 20,000 pro-Roman Catholic demonstrators, led by Bernadette Devlin, a member of the British Parliament, defied a ban on parades and marched down the streets of Newry to protest the deaths
...year 1975 is going to be a Holy Year, said Pope Paul VI, so let's clean up the Holy City. His Holiness was not referring to litter. "A certain pornographic license and debased morals" have crept into Roman life, he said. Nude magazines have proliferated, and striptease has become a common art form in nightclubs. The pilgrims who visit Rome during a Holy Year are granted plenary indulgences for their sins, but it would hardly do for them to encounter too many temptations in the very city that the Pope called "custodian of memories which are among...
...fees: $2,050 for board, room and tuition. The citizens of Tulsa have chipped in $2.7 million to help build a $9,000,000 special events center on the campus, which will also serve as Tulsa's civic auditorium. Beyond Tulsa, Roberts' audience seems to be broadening. Roman Catholics, who once castigated his pentecostal healing, now number 15% of his letter writers. Many of them, he says, are nuns...
...seven Roman Catholic bishops of The Netherlands, who presented such a progressive front at the Second Vatican Council, have suffered another breach in their ranks. A year ago Pope Paul introduced the first new conservative into the Dutch hierarchy by appointing Adrianus Simonis to the see of Rotterdam, ignoring the nominations of the diocesan chapter (TIME, Jan. 18, 1971). Now he has named Johannes Mathias Gijsen, 39, a friend of Simonis and heretofore the rector of an old-age home in a tiny village, to the southern Netherlands diocese of Roermond. As with the Simonis appointment, critics noted, the Pope...