Word: vow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Word of Salinger's booboo reached the President, who summoned his unlucky Pierre to his office for a 45-minute tongue-lashing. When reporters eventually reached White House Chef Pedro Udo, he was true to his vow of silence. In London, Diane Chauvel was philosophical: "These things happen, you know. It's nice to know Mrs. Kennedy thinks so highly of our cook...
There is another alternative, not often granted by the church, known as the brother-sister vow-in which a man and woman are permitted to live in public as man and wife, but in private must be as chaste as brother and sister. The true story of one couple's struggle to achieve this relationship is poignantly told in a new book, Whom God Hath Not Joined, by a young woman under the pen name of Claire McAuley (Sheed & Ward...
...well, after all, and that through her own willfulness she might be "paving a path to perdition," not only for herself but for the man she loved. In an agony of conscience, she appealed again and again to her parish priest. She had never heard of the brother-sister vow, but had come to the conclusion that she and John could stay together if only they avoided "adultery," i.e., sex ("A neat trick, if you happen to be quite young, quite normal, and very much in love"). Her priest obviously felt the trick was all but impossible; he offered...
...would pass, then as a cruel denial of his conjugal rights. There were violent quarrels. But as Claire persevered, John slowly began to see things her way, and they began searching for a priest who would help them get a bishop's permission to take the brother-sister vow...
...thought of the possibility of one night having the little martini hour turn into quite a party, and no matter what the intention, or how strong it might be, we could easily pick up again the habit we were trying to eliminate. If we were bound by a vow, we would be in more serious trouble. And the Bishop who stamped the paper would have some deep thinking to do ... The biggest worry a Bishop has in connection with granting permission to live together-apart is the consideration of what possible abuse might be made of the Sacrament...