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Academic Priests. Few urge that gospel more ardently than Ivan Illich, 45, a restless Vienna-born U.S. citizen and Roman Catholic priest who has resigned his clerical functions. For the past ten years, Illich has dominated a free university in Cuernavaca, Mexico called the Center for Intercultural Documentation. While training social workers for jobs in Latin America, the center has become a crucible for provocative ideas...
Richard B. Griffin, Roman Catholic University Chaplain, who has just returned from a ten-day visit with the four delegations to the Paris Peace Talks, said yesterday he found the North Vietnamese and Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam (PRG) delegations "friendly and open...
...parish priest and in 1937 became Beirut-based patriarch of 100,000 Armenian Catholics. Nine years later he was made the second Armenian cardinal in the history of the church. The Vatican's resident expert on Soviet affairs and master of eleven languages, he also headed Roman Catholic missions throughout the world from...
Straight off, the Romans illustrate one of Miss Pullar's pet theses, which Americans, engulfed in cookbooks and cholesterol, might ponder: gluttony is the consequence of another sin, boredom -acedia. Affluent Roman days, according to Miss Pullar, were "great plains of monotony punctuated with affairs and mealtimes," often conducted simultaneously. (In a special appendix the twin hungers for food and sex are related by Miss Pullar, who is now at work on a biography of that priapic trencherman, Frank Harris...
...Romans may have been better engineers than cooks. They concocted trick buns that squirted, fitted wings to cooked hares in order to impersonate Pegasus, and rigged dining-room ceilings to rain flowers. Every meal a production number. But the recipes themselves, Miss Pullar maintains, have been underestimated by culinary historians. She favorably compares Roman sweet-and-sour contrasts with Chinese cooking, their well-sauced meats with Creole dishes...