Word: weigel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Woodstock led; it did not follow. Its theological superstars paced U.S. Catholicism into Vatican II thinking before the Second Vatican Council existed. Woodstock's Gustave Weigel was more than anyone else the father of American Catholic ecumenism. The late John Courtney Murray, the nation's most brilliant Catholic political thinker, was the prime inspiration behind Vatican II's decree on religious liberty...
Died. Helene Weigel, 70, Vienna-born actress-director and flinty widow of Playwright Bertolt Brecht; in East Berlin. Already an accomplished performer when she married Brecht in 1929, Weigel later starred in his drama Mother Courage on the Berlin stage. Anti-Nazi and proCommunist, the couple fled Hitler's Germany in 1933, lived in Denmark and the U.S., then returned to East Germany after the war. For the past 15 years Weigel directed the famed Berliner Ensemble, the repertory company founded by Brecht. "What Brecht prescribed," wrote Critic Kenneth Tynan in 1961, "his widow embodies: the maxim that there...