Word: professor
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...read from every pulpit in the nation this week, it said: "Not even the Pope himself is free from error. But if the bishops and the Pope state that something is God-revealed, then the help of the Holy Spirit prevents them from error. This is what Professor Kung denies, and it is a fundamental tenet of the faith...
...Vatican acted under terms of its concordat with Germany, a holdover from the era of the diplomat Popes, under which professors of Roman Catholic theology at state institutions must have a missio canonica (canonical mission to teach) from the local bishop. In Kung's case, this is Bishop Georg Moser of Rottenburg-Stuttgart. Austria is the only other nation where a concordat gives bishops so much power over theologians at secular campuses. Elsewhere, except for schools under direct church control, the Vatican has only the power to inform Catholics that a professor's views are not sanctioned...
...strikes; for 14 years he has also served as consultant to TIME'S Law section. Born in The Bronx, Sovern attended the Bronx High School of Science, took both his B. A. and law degrees at Columbia as a scholarship student and at 28 became the youngest full professor in the school's history. He and his wife Joan, a sculptor, live in Manhattan; they have six children by previous marriages...
Ellen Shipley might not have written, never mind recorded, Heroes of Yesterday, one of the best tunes on anyone's album this year, if she had not been booted out of her theater class at Hunter College. "You ought to be out of here doing real things," her professor told her, so Shipley (born Shippelkopf) swapped her half-finished master's for a series of the prescribed real things, including marriage, playwriting and a job as an assistant to the music critic of Saturday Review. The marriage shattered, the play never got produced and the magazine got sold...
...cumulative forecasts of politicians, sociologists, philosophers, scientists and journalists, including some of those that found their way into this magazine, fell dismally short of even hinting at the actual shape and tone of the society that took form in the '70s. Such was the record that Education Professor Ronald L. Hunt, who designed the nation's first graduate program in futurism at California's San Jose State University, says that the 1980s ought to open the "age of humility" for forecasting...