Word: viii
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neither the Pope nor the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. F. Donald Coggan, endorsed the agreement; they simply approved its publication for discussion. Not until the 1980s is the commission expected to draft its final proposal for ending the split, which began 4% centuries ago when King Henry VIII rejected the authority of Pope Clement VII so that an autonomous Church of England would grant an annulment of his first marriage to Catherine of Aragon...
...annual Super Bowl is a memorable event for scores of players-and millions of spectators. But for one Manhattan couple it holds an uncommon attachment. Reporter-Researcher Jay Rosenstein, who worked on this week's cover story, followed Super Bowl VIII (Dolphins v. Vikings) on an early date with an attractive young nurse. This year Rosenstein will be flying to California to report on Super Bowl XI, and the same lady-with whom he also saw Super Bowls IX and X-will join him for the game. But they will be hurrying back to New York City; the following...
...Samuel Johnson once wrote, "He was the person of the greatest virtue these islands ever produced." Saintliness can carry a man only so far, but in the case of Sir Thomas it seems to have carried him far enough: to the post of Lord Chancellor of England under Henry VIII. More's virtue found an uncongenial home in the Renaissance court, where moral rectitude was hardly a lasting recipe for success. Henry admired him, but these were difficult times; the King's friendships had to take second place to the King's lusts--or more precisely, his obsession with perpetuating...
There are gaps in Johnson's book, some obviously by design. He disdains to rerun the story of Henry VIII's war with the papacy over his divorce, assuming that most English-speaking readers know it already. At other times, though, particularly in his discussion of more recent times, Johnson's book has some peculiar lacunae. There is not a word about Russian Orthodoxy under the Czars, or under Communism. Nor about pentecostalism, a significant force in American Christianity since the turn of the century and now a phenomenon world wide. He barely touches on the Protestant...
...have played five Macbeths, three Mark Antonys, one El Cid, a cardinal and three Presidents," intoned Actor Charlton Heston. "But never have I played such a role where my own equipment served me so little." Heston's latest brush with the big boys is as King Henry VIII in Director Richard Fleischer's film The Prince and the Pauper. The actor needed plastic in his makeup plus padding on his body to effect the appropriate regal bearing. "My eyes are deep set; his were close to the surface," observed Heston. "My face is angular; his was square...