Word: ryans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ryan's Express, Westheimer...
FICTION 1. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Le Carre (1 last week) 2. The Group, McCarthy (2) 3. The Venetian Affair, Maclnnes (3) 4. The Wapshot Scandal, Cheever (6) 5. The Hat on the Bed, O'Hara (4) 6. The Martyred, Kim (5) 7. Von Ryan's Express, Westheimer (8) 8. The Shoes of the Fisherman, West (7) 9. The Fanatic, Levin 10. The Night of the Generals, Kirst...
According to Mrs. Ryan, the 5,900,000 pupils in Catholic elementary schools, high schools and colleges in 1963 constituted less than half of all Catholics of school age. The best evidence on how they fare, comparatively, comes from the Rev. Joseph H. Fichter, S.J., head of the sociology department at Loyola University. Testing social standards, social skills, family relations and school and community relations in typical parochial and public schools in South Bend, Ind., he found that pupils were nearly identical: both "accept and demonstrate honesty, obedience, gratitude, self-control and kindliness in about the same proportions...
...Supreme Bean." But by the logic of the Catholic school system, children trained in it should get notably better religious formation. Mrs. Ryan thinks they do not, partly because parochial schools are anachronistic. No longer, she argues, are the Roman Catholic Church and its schools in the "state of siege" that has existed since the Reformation. No longer must Catholics be equipped with weapons of defense against Protestant teachings. What is needed, she feels, is workable religious instruction to make all Catholics better Christians in the community...
...only two other people in the small room are Frank Ryan, an old friend of mine who now lives mostly in Madrid, and Mrs. Christina Austin, who is the lady whose name was mentioned with Mr. Ford's prior to and during the divorce. We are seated and settled in before the incredible coincidence is discovered, and then it is Mrs. Ford who has the poise to take charge. 'This had to happen some time,' she whispers...