Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vigil to dramatize their demand for "a church of the poor," they were denounced by irate conservatives. "Communists!" they yelled. "Get out of Rome! Long live the Pope!" The scuffle in the streets was symptomatic of the conflict within the Vatican, where 144 prelates assembled this week for the second Bishops' Synod. In the Hall of Broken Heads, once the storage place for discarded statues, they began discussions about the troubled relationship between the Pope and his bishops...
Guilt is running nudity a close second at theater box offices. Flesh peddling is relatively honest, since it makes no particular pretense of moral grandeur. But when the clink of commerce purports to be the thunder of conscience, all sorts of hypocrisies begin masquerading as virtues...
...conclusion. As a result, their art achieved more than occasional grandeur. It was exciting even when it failed, providing a tradition that invites any young artist to try absolutely anything. Whether that is a good thing will not be clear until the Met is a few years into its second century...
...businessmen and consumers that prosperity is not necessarily perpetual and price rises are not inevitable. Right now, there is quite a bit of uncertainty. Last week, for example, the Government reported that in September personal income showed the smallest rise in 17 months, and industrial production dropped for the second straight month...
Died. Father Damien Boulogne, 58, the Dominican priest who lived 523 days with a transplanted heart, a record second only to that of South Africa's Dr. Philip Blaiberg, who survived for 594 days; of as yet undetermined causes; in Paris. On May 12, 1968, Boulogne received the heart of a 39-year-old Paris customs officer, and within a few months had resumed a more or less normal life, working on a book and regularly celebrating Mass. His death came as a complete surprise to Jiis doctor, Charles Dubost, who was away lecturing at a Mexican university...