Word: virginity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ever try to rectify an erroneous billing by the Puerto Rico Telephone Company?-grown men have been known to cry! Ever try to get a telephone in the Virgin Islands? Ever try to get the operator?-busy signals for hours on end. Ever get charged a service charge for placing a long distance call that doesn't answer? Ever see thousands of inhabitants with no telephones for years?-look at Puerto Rico and ITT. Maybe President Geneen hasn't opened that attache case...
...Right Rev. James A. Pike has long contended that what Christianity needs is fewer beliefs but more belief. In his previous ventures into pop theology, the resigned Episcopal Bishop of California has been mostly concerned with explaining why he regards such dogmas as the Trinity and the Virgin Birth as beliefs he can do without. Now, in a new book called If This Be Heresy (Harper & Row; $4.95), Pike tries to explain what he does accept and why, summing up his formula for faith in a neat little equation: "data + inference = modest faith-affirmation...
Dropping the Ampersand. International Telephone & Telegraph came into being in 1920 when Sosthenes Behn, a young entrepreneur born in the Virgin Islands of Danish-French ancestry (though "Sosthenes" is Greek for "of sound strength"), founded it as a New York-based holding company for several Caribbean telephone companies he had recently acquired. Behn's choice of a corporate name was an unabashed effort to trade on the reputation of the giant American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Behn was successful in creating this confusion; even today, many people think of ITT as the international division of A.T. & T. Behn received...
Last November a group of conservative Dutch laymen sent a letter of protest to Pope Paul asking for an official probe; old-guard cardinals in the Vatican agreed that there should be a full investigation. They particularly objected to the catechism's comments on the virgin birth and original sin. Mirroring recent skepticism among reform circles, the Dutch theologians deliberately left open the question of Mary's biological virginity. They also point out that original sin has been taken for granted as being inherited. To explain the concept to modern man, the Dutch catechism describes...
...fascinations of the exhibit is the juxtaposition of paintings that gallerygoers would normally have to travel miles to compare. An outstanding example is two wood panels illustrating the birth of the Virgin and her presentation in the temple, which until the 1930s hung in the Barberini Palace in Rome. Then one was acquired by Manhattan's Metropolitan, the other by Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. Now they are back together again, offering a double portion of the pale palette, polished perspective and high-waisted principessas painted by the anonymous 15th century artist known only as "the Master...