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...days and weeks before spring vacation the images become unbearable in their vividness and unruly in their allure. The tolling of the Mem Church bell at the end of a lecture becomes the age-old ring of a village steeple in Italy, calling the peasants from the surrounding fields to the Sunday service. The blue cover of the exam book in front of us becomes the alluring azure of an Algerian afternoon sky. The steam from a dining hall cup of coffee becomes the aromatic wisp from a demitasse of espresso sipped in a sidewalk cafe on Paris Left Bank...
Members of the Society of Jesus are a breed apart, not only as the biggest and most influential men's order in the Roman Catholic Church but also as the group with the famed "fourth vow." All Catholic religious orders require members to take the three age-old oaths of poverty, chastity and obedience, but the Jesuits have a fourth vow all their own: special obedience to the Pope. This vow of fealty has become the focus of the recent struggle by more liberal Jesuits against conservatives in the Vatican and in the Society. Last week the delegates...
Frontal Shots. The outburst of porn has made strange bedfellows of Roman Catholic bishops, the Communist Party, the actors union and even some impresarios, all of whom are pondering the age-old question of how to have liberty without license. "Debauchery is a pig's breakfast," one anguished citizen wrote the Lisbon weekly Expresso. There have even been charges that the CIA is sponsoring the new pornography to sap the revolution of its energies. Recently, Premier Vasco Gonçalves on nationwide television admonished his people to fight "pseudo-leftists and anarchists instead of going to see the pornography...
...seeming accessibility who hopes to bed her way to wealth. Thanks to the brushstroke acting skill of John McMartin, the drollest portrait of all is Foresight, a doddering astrologist so fervently absorbed in his zodiacal predictions that he fails to notice that his wife is cuckolding him under the age-old sign of Venery...
...flowering of art and architecture was a natural out growth of expanding knowledge in mathematics and the rules of perspective. Bronowski also corrects the popular notion that the Industrial Revolution simply forced man to give up rural pleasures for urban horrors. This revolution, he points out, freed man from age-old social strictures, creating a new aristocracy of talent...