Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thank goodness for your April 18 article, "The Defeat of the Happy Warrior." It's about time someone dispelled the popular belief that Governor Smith's Roman Catholicism alone caused his defeat. I agree wholeheartedly that no Democrat, Franklin D. Roosevelt included, could have won over Hoover. The Republican Party at the time was riding the crest of the prosperity wave which would have swamped any opposition...
...press conference that it would sure be fine to have a Western Governor as a running mate. Nevada's Governor Grant Sawyer soon got the word. Sawyer's friends mentally crossed off those Westerners who plainly had no chance-California's Pat Brown (like Kennedy, a Roman Catholic), Washington's Albert Rosellini (Catholic), Oregon's Mark Hatfield (Republican)-and came to the logical conclusion that Kennedy certainly must have been talking about Grant Sawyer. As the Sawyer pride swelled, so did his admiration of and enthusiasm for Kennedy...
...compensation"), his flirtation with Communism. Boldly the newspaper spoke out for "democratic normalcy and the law. Is this a crime? Is it immoral? Are there not a lot of Cuban people who want the same?" Castro tolerated such impudence only because Diario was considered the unofficial spokesman for the Roman Catholic Church in Cuba and because it furnished proof to "Yankee imperialists" that freedom of the press did exist under his government...
...Time. Fear of conformity sometimes results in a false personality cult. "The artist becomes the isolated, romantic hero, instead of taking up the task of building . . . higher and deeper rituals wherein alone personality will be achieved and our cheaper conformities or etiquettes restore themselves to sense." Even in as Roman Catholic a writer as Graham Greene, Critic Lynch finds "a subtle if unconscious demonstration of the Manichaean way"-especially in the novel, The End of the Affair, in which the heroine renounces her lover and dedicates herself to God. Lynch notes that there is no relation between her divine...
...opportunity to exhibit their memory retention of scriptural verses either from the Old or New Testament." The rules: candidates must attend some religious school, must memorize 20 verses to qualify, after which each verse memorized earns $1-up to $100. Among this week's winners are 154 Roman Catholics, 109 Protestants...