Word: case
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...than the Vatican's Jean Cardinal Danielou, who said that the idea "does not shock me." How about the miracles normally required for canonization? Merely an innovation of modern times, said Danielou. More important was the ability "to practice virtues with a certain degree of heroism." In any case there was no particular hurry. Joan of Arc did not make it for 489 years...
Refusal to Grow Up. To Midge Decter, writing in Commentary, the feminist's problem is her refusal to grow up: "To judge from what she says and does-finding only others at fault for her predicaments, speaking always of herself as a means of stating the general case, shedding tears as a means of negotiation-the freedom she seeks is a freedom demanded by children and enjoyed by no one: the freedom from all difficulty...
...speeches. Dressed in a sober suit, white shirt and tie, Tigar began his opening statement to the jury by promising to be "mercifully brief." He was. "Conspiracy deals in essence with the contents of men's minds," he said in part. "That is the simple heart of this case...
...small commune of Viorne near Paris. A housewife in the district, Claire Amelie Lannes, 51, was confronted by detectives and at once confessed to the murder of her deaf-and-dumb cousin and housekeeper. In point of fact, A Place Without Doors was inspired by a slightly different case. In December 1949, a 51-year-old housewife killed her husband with a hatchet and chopped him up into many pieces which she threw off a bridge (Pont de la Montagne Pavee) near Corbeil...
...Moves ... a Sculpture by Henry Moore. Photographs by David Finn; Words by Donald Hall. 160 pages. Abrams. $35. One hundred and thirty-one ways of looking at a bronze-in this case, Henry Moore's Three Piece Reclining Figure No. 2: Bridge Prop. Finn's fine photographs explore masses, probe patinas, present perspectives, titillate with textures. Poet Hall's words are blessedly brief. Their joint aim is to educate the eye. A splendid book for Moore fanciers. For others, the year's richest example of cultural overkill...