Word: virginal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...according to legend, the house of the Virgin Mary landed in what is now the Italian town of Loreto after a miraculous flight from Nazareth. That association with air travel has been enough to make the town of 9,500 a profitable center of jet-age piety. Last week at least 50,000 pilgrims crammed in to celebrate the 50th anniversary of a papal proclamation designating the Madonna of Loreto as protector of aviators; they overflowed the 20 hotels and dozen boarding houses that have gone up in Loreto in recent years. Prosperity from tourism has helped Loreto entrepreneurs...
...leaders of the Church Outside Russia accordingly do not recognize the actions of other Russian Orthodox groups. Thus on the same weekend as the Kodiak ceremonies. New York's Metropolitan Philaret led a glittering procession down Geary Boulevard in San Francisco to the minareted Cathedral of the Holy Virgin, there to confirm with another solemn liturgy that Herman is really a saint...
Only once in the 100 years since Vatican I has a Pope explicitly invoked the power recognized on that stormy summer day. In 1950, Pope Pius XII defined ex cathedra the dogma of the bodily assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into heaven. Still, the doctrine of infallibility continues to trouble many Catholics. Among other things, its mere presence lends greater authority to other papal pronouncements not usually defined as infallible, such as Pope Paul VI's controversial encyclical Humanae vitae, which reaffirmed strictures against artificial birth control...
...that a binding treaty could not be completed until 1973 at the earliest. Other delegates thought that an independent agency could do the job more efficiently than the bureaucracy-ridden U.N. Lord Ritchie-Calder likened the process to "the opening up of the last frontier. First, adventurers go into virgin-territories to stake their claims and repel interlopers," he said. 'Then the federal marshal comes along to represent the" law, followed by the elected sheriff and a regime of law and order." What the suntanned conferees took home with them was a conviction that...
Salacious Song. Lawrence's work always rides perilously close to cheapness. In less discreet hands, The Virgin and the Gypsy could have been as overripe as Women in Love (TIME, April 13) or as sensation-seeking as The Fox. But at 31, Miles knows everything worth knowing about actors, if not about film. His water and fire symbols and andante flashbacks are modish and imprecise, but he makes his cast function with the proficiency and timing of a London rep company. With an accretion of under statements, Miles builds the universal tragedy of a family whose past consumes...