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Mistress of Life. Measured even against such portentous events, the turning point that Christianity reached in 1962 is already assured of a firm place in history, that "mistress of life" to which Pope John occasionally refers. By launching a reform whose goal is to make the Catholic Church sine macula et ruga (without spot or wrinkle), John set out to adapt his church's whole life and stance to the revolutionary changes in science, economics, morals and politics that have swept the modern world: to make it, in short, more Catholic and less Roman. Stretching out the hand of friendship...
Although it is a chiche in Harvard-Yale sporting circles to say that victory in the annual Classic is the sine qua non of a successful football season, the contrasting humors of coaches John Yovicsin and Jordan Olivar at Saturday's post-game press conference seemed to attest to the cliche's truth...
...task of diplomacy is reconciliation, justice and order. I emphasize justice and order. They are the pillars of stability. Some people are suspicious ... as though the rule of law were a mere trick to freeze the status quo. It is quite the opposite. Its observance is the sine qua non of peaceful change. The rule of law is a lesson learned from centuries of human experience, from many mistakes and much suffering . . . Without it, we destroy one another...
...Year he is! But Artist Annigoni's conception of Mr. Kennedy is not in Sine with the image preferred by "the public.""For shame...
...still have a good telephone and a couple of legs," says Krock-and he uses them for every column. He intensely dislikes being called a pundit: "I am more concerned with the reportorial quality of what I write than with any other aspect. The reporter is the sine qua non of a newspaper. If the reporters are good, the newspaper is good...