Word: virgination
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...papally endorsed 18-page decree issued by the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.-In arguing for its view, the Vatican emphasized that Christ "was and remains a man." It placed even more emphasis on Christ's decision not to call any woman, not even the Virgin Mary, as an apostle, and on the church's "unbroken tradition" of male priests ever since. Declaring that priests must have a "natural resemblance" to Christ, it said that with a woman celebrating the Mass "it would be difficult to see in the minister the image of Christ...
That lady nuzzling a serval is Actress Barbara Carrera, on location in the Virgin Islands for the filming of H.G. Wells' 1896 science-fiction chiller, The Island of Dr. Moreau. Carrera plays a prostitute shanghaied from Panama to Moreau's Pacific island for his grisly experiments in trans-species engineering. Michael York co-stars as a shipwrecked Englishman who also gets entangled in the mad scientist's endeavors. To provide raw materials for Vivisectionist Moreau (played by Burt Lancaster), the film makers imported a small-scale Noah's ark of creatures. So far, actors and animals...
...style of dress was the antichic of radical intellectuals of the '20s and '30s-drab, flappy and mannish. Her biographer gives no indication that Weil ever had lovers of either sex. Her single vice was cigarettes, and she suffered throughout her life from severe headaches. Red Virgin. Biographer Pétrement tightly knits the facts of Weil's life with the development of her thought. While still a philosophy student, Weil became convinced that evil lay exclusively in a failure of the will. She amended Descartes's "I think, therefore I am" to "I can, therefore...
Those who derided Weil as "The Red Virgin" were off the mark. She distrusted all forms of political organization, and shrewdly saw that Marxism was not superior politics but inferior religion. As a writer of rigorously reasoned essays, she stripped rhetoric down to cold realities. Most of her opinions were out of fashion with the European liberals of her generation. Like the child in The Emperor's New Clothes, she early on proclaimed the naked truth that there was not a sou's worth of difference between Stalin and Hitler...
...patterns, including those of the left. Teenagers, she says, see the Communist Party as "practically in the government now and stressing all the old-fashioned bourgeois values." The young couple is equally scornful of sexual absolutes. "Twenty years ago," explains Ravera, "a girl had to arrive at marriage a virgin. Now she has to arrive not a virgin. Both are authoritarian...