Word: topically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mightily amazed at TIME'S [May 13] coverage of the recent meeting of the Catholic bishops of France. Where did your reporter get his information on the assembly's discussion of the priest workers? Was he in Paris? Did he dream it up? The priest-workers topic was not even on the agenda. Responsible church officials in France state that the matter was "not brought up a single time in the course of the assembly." I can usually go along with TIME'S reporting of facts. I am surprised at such a mixture of fact and fiction...
...TIME'S Paris correspondent got his information from firsthand observation and from notable churchmen present, including two bishops and a monsignor whose reliability is beyond question. The Worker Priest topic was not on the agenda, but it was discussed in a full report made by the Archbishop of Bourges under the title "Les Grandes Orientations." This part of the archbishop's discussion will not be published officially for the same reason that the topic did not appear on the agenda...
...Topic A. Caen's Baghdad is essentially a mutual admiration society whose members never tire of hearing San Francisco's praises sung. "You go ten days without writing a column about how great the city is," says Caen, "and you start getting letters saying 'you don't love us any more.' " His most popular columns in the Examiner (circ. 246,186) are the periodic panegyrics he calls "fog creeping through the bridge" pieces; in them he ranges rhapsodically from the hills (he claims there are 30) to the weather (which he says beats...
Beyond this minimum, the University not only required no virtues, it did not even discuss them. Virtue was a minor topic in the philosophy department, seldom discussed since the rise of "modern" analytic methods...
...this afternoon at 4:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. The atomic physicist has been discussing some of the more relevant examples from atomic physics and quantum theory in an approach to "A Hope of Order," which will be the title of his last lecture and has been the topic of the entire series...