Word: romanizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rather enjoyed your one-sided story on freedom in the Roman Catholic church [Nov. 22]. Fortunately, it was my side...
Divorced. Audrey Hepburn, 39, Hollywood's eternal princess (Roman Holiday, War and Peace); and Mel Ferrer, 51, its brooding prince (Knights of the Round Table, War and Peace), who married Audrey after they appeared together in a Broadway production of Ondine (she as a water sprite, he as knight-errant); on grounds of incompatibility; after 14 years of marriage, one child; in Merges, Switzerland...
...test of a good religion," G. K. Chesterton once said, "whether you can make a joke about it." Judging by The Shoes of the Fisherman, Roman Catholicism is an excellent faith indeed. This saccharine Pope opera is sober-faced and straitlaced, but it would be hard to imagine a parochial-school sixth-grader taking it seriously...
...ecumenism by reciting the Shema Yisrael in the house of a dying Jew, and outdoes Dear Abby by cementing a broken marriage. His ex-cathedra advice: Love one another. In his spare time, Pope Kiril befriends a radical theologian, Father Telemond (Oskar Werner), soothes the internecine squabbles of the Roman Curia, and ends the possibility of World War III by giving away the wealth of the church to the starving Chinese...
...time when Roman Catholicism is rent by internal rebellion and dissent, the church could use some aid. The Shoes of the Fisherman makes a pompous offering-and in the act of genuflecting, falls on its face...