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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...L.B.J., a month after ordering the bombing of North Viet Nam: "I can't get out. I can't finish it with what I've got. So what the hell can I do?" Lady Bird, on Daughter Luci's dress for her baptism into the Roman Catholic Church: "About as inconspicuous as Brigitte Bardot." On Lynda Bird's boy friend, Actor George Hamilton: "Part of the wine of life, exciting and heady." On the surprises in L.B.J.'s bedroom: "I walked in this morning for coffee, and who should be sitting there but Richard...
...Critic-"Conceiver" Kenneth Tynan (Oh! Calcutta!), Entrepreneur Hugh Hefner (Playboy), and Director Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water) collaborate to make a movie, what will its title be? Macbeth! Shooting is scheduled to start in northern Wales next week with a script by Polanski, Tynan and Shakespeare, and a cast of unknowns, young enough to make the Weird Sisters not too unattractive with their clothes...
...admonition to the Corinthian women, St. Paul was merely applying Jewish practice to new Christian congregations. But in the 19 centuries since, many Christian churches have followed the Pauline exhortation as if it were divine law. Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, the Anglican Communion and Lutheran churches have until now been especially slow to remove regulations barring women from a full role in the ministry...
...large part of Christendom. Eastern Orthodoxy, retaining its Middle Eastern traditions, is perhaps the slowest to accept women as equals. Women are completely barred, for instance, from even setting foot on the monastic peninsula of Mount Athos in northern Greece. Women also have a long way to go in Roman Catholicism and Judaism...
...Roman Catholicism has helped both to elevate and subjugate women. Despite St. Paul's admonition about female silence, other passages of the Apostle's writings show that he expected women to take a prophetic role now and then. His reminder that "there is neither male nor female . . . in Christ" also helped to raise women from the level of chattel to partner. The early church had a specific office of deaconess. By the Middle Ages, when veneration of the Virgin Mary almost put her on the level of a goddess, religious orders had produced powerful abbesses who held their...