Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate subcommittee. He is plainly representative of the new type. "Some people think they are serving humanity by withdrawing from the world and studying all the time," he says. "Studies are important, of course, but you have a duty not to withdraw from everything else." Ken Rosenberg, a second-year medical student at Tufts, is far more radical than Nathan. His Cambridge apartment is a hodgepodge of stray socks, underground newspapers and books by Herbert Marcuse. Rosenberg, uncertain whether to continue his studies, is taking next year off to think. "I want to work on understanding the medical system...
Inside the imposing episcopal palace of the Alpine town of Chur, Switzerland, 112 cardinals, archbishops and bishops representing 18 countries gathered last week to discuss the crisis in the Roman Catholic priesthood. The delegates to the second Europe-wide symposium of the Catholic hierarchy had hoped for an atmosphere of ecclesiastical calm. But out side the palace were 70 priests (some of them in sport coats and red ties), part of a protesting "shadow symposium" that had been hastily convened at a nearby hostel. Bullhorn in hand, French Dominican Jean Cardonnel, a fiery leftist whose Lenten address helped inspire last...
...young priest was a comer. In 1962, Julius Cardinal Döpfner appointed him vicar-general of the Munich and Freising archdiocese. Defregger proved to be a master administrator. During Döpfner's protracted visits to Rome for the Second Vatican Council, the stocky priest with the high intellectual forehead, the cool blue eyes and the gold-rimmed glasses began to seem the cardinal's alter ego. In 1968, the Vatican agreed that Defregger should be made a bishop. "With the gift of your heart and your intelligence," wrote Pope Paul VI in his accreditation, "you appear...
...Separate Islands. He goes into the more substantial second play, Landscape. Here an estranged servant couple (David Waller, Peggy Ashcroft) are living in a now empty house in the country, measuring out their middle age in walks to the pub and vigils by the window. Their respective emotional landscapes-again, sketched in interlocking monologues-are as refracted as John Bury's setting, which strands them on separate domestic islands in the same wide kitchen...
Kamiya then sets the monitor to sound when the subject's brain waves are in the alpha range of eight to twelve cycles per second. In one test, eight of ten subjects were able to control the tone, emitting or suppressing brain waves as requested. They Were unable to say exactly how they gained such control; they simply wanted to keep receiving the proper feedback from the tone...