Word: romanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Saul Bellow wrote his roman a clef, Humboldt's Gift, even knowledgeable readers had trouble recalling the model for Von Humboldt Fleisher. The difficulty would not have occurred if Bellow's chief character had been based on Robert Lowell or John Berry man or Theodore Roethke. Yet, for these celebrated poets, Delmore Schwartz was once the front runner of their generation...
...shame on the Roman Catholic bishops who endorse such a creature to "save" the poor...
...With similar single-mindedness, he progressed through the ranks to become an archbishop at the relatively young age of 43. Last week in Washington, John Raphael Quinn, now 48, was elected president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops-in effect, leader of the nation's 49 million Roman Catholics...
Small wonder that most of the Châteaux Peoria enterprises are tiny by California standards and much of their wine is sold locally, often on their own premises. Few have more than 100 acres in vines. (On the other hand, Burgundy's La Romanée-Conti vineyard, one of the world's most justly famed, encompasses barely 4½ acres.) Some of their owners, and professional oenologists, point out that the soil and microclimate in, say, parts of Massachusetts and Michigan are in many ways closer to the great winegrowing regions of Europe than are overheated...
...registered voters, a group representative of various regions, races, ages and religious groups in proportion to the nationwide figures for those same groups. Thus 14% came From the Pacific Coast states, 10% were between 21 and 24 years old, 34% had only a high school education, 29% were Roman Catholic, 72% were married...