Word: tenseness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The most radical of the new nuns have abandoned their orders to form "noncanonical" experimental communities outside the reach of church authority. But they do not consider themselves "ex-nuns." A free-form, geographically dispersed group (32 states, Canada and England) called Sisters for a Christian Community (S.F.C.C.) was founded...
"I need crowds, vast crowds, enormous crowds," explained Soviet Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko as he made plans for his tour of the U.S. this month. He once read to an audience of 14,000 in a Moscow sports stadium; Doubleday, his American publisher, was happy to help re-create his experience...
"We are trying to provide student wages for people on financial aid. If there wasn't any University involvement, there's some question about whether HSA could use the Harvard name. We'd have no leverage to get these students jobs," Gibson said. He added that the $10,000 contribution...
Poised for Flight. The new pattern of currency values looks realistic, but businessmen and money traders will not put their full trust in it for some time. Meanwhile, warns Triffin, tens of billions of dollars of capital will remain poised for instant flight abroad. That could happen if Phase II...
Labor unrest has become endemic in Italy. Last week's strikers included tens of thousands of workers in Milan, 50,000 civil servants and some cinema actors and customs inspectors. Even the employees of the Treasury Ministry walked out for two days, creating confusion at the meetings of the...