Word: aurelia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...island of Sardinia, black-capped, white-trousered unemployed farm laborers moved onto the rocky hills which had been untouched by the plow for generations. Near Cerveteri, along the rolling hills of Via Aurelia, on a plot of 124 meager acres which had produced nothing but blackberries for years, the land-hungry were fiercely hacking away weeds and shrubs; one old man, behind a pair of snow-white oxen, turned a fresh furrow in the fallow earth to stake his claim...
...Died. Aurelia Henry Reinhardt, 70, retired president of California's Mills College (1916-43), outstanding Dante scholar (editor and translator: The Monarchia of Dante Alighieri), first woman moderator of a major U.S. church (Unitarian Churches of America, 1940-42); after long illness; in Palo Alto, Calif...
...means the wicked Old Nick after whom the Devil himself is said to be named. He is a wary, humorous, thoughtful lecher with stomach trouble, who spends most of his free time worrying about how (and if) he is going to keep an assignation with a lady named Aurelia. During business hours he proves to be an astute, hard-working Florentine spy. He admires Borgia's ruthless audacity, but always from a diplomatic distance...
...because he has seen what happens to Borgia's henchmen. When he returns home at the end of his mission, he realizes that he has had an education in statecraft and princely behavior, also in the behavior of women. He drafts a saucy play about a woman like Aurelia, hints that he may some day write a book about a man like Borgia. "My dear Niccoló," says a friend, "you're so impractical. Who d'you think would read it? You're not going to achieve immortality by writing a book like that." The play...
Since U.S. Unitarians changed their chief officer (in 1938) from a President to a Moderator, Unitarian Churches have been headed by a penologist (Sanford Bates), two college presidents (Mills College's Aurelia Reinhardt, Toledo University's Philip C. Nash). Last week the American Unitarian Association's executive committee nominated a Senator-Harold Hitz Burton, co-author of the Ball-Burton-Hatch-Hill resolution (TIME, March 22). The 55-year-old Senator and three-time mayor of Cleveland will take office at the Unitarians' annual meeting next...