Word: bolognas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flying Friars. When Montini decided this fall that Milan needed a major spiritual lift, he went at it with energy and thoroughness. From Bologna he borrowed Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro's squad of 20 "Flying Friars" (TIME, Dec. 7, 1953), whose trucks carry loudspeakers, altars and confessionals. From all over Italy he hand-picked a corps of 800 preachers belonging to all religious orders. He lined up the cooperation of Milan's officials, businessmen and non-Communist Labor leaders. Aim of the mission is not converts but "to strengthen man's filial ties...
...finally on men. There are special programs for various vocations-from artists, attorneys, ballerinas, bartenders, bus drivers to policemen, professors, radio-TV workers, social workers, soldiers, students, taxi drivers. In a daily round of rallies, 22 bishops and archbishops from all over Italy moved from one group to another. Bologna's Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro scheduled six sermons for meetings of Milan intellectuals and Genoa's Giuseppe Cardinal Siri was signed up for seven to business executives...
Delight in the Ruins. Born in the Italian Alps, Nervi got his engineering degree from Bologna, served as a lieutenant in the World War I Italian Corps of Engineers. Out of the army, he worked out his apprenticeship with one of Italy's best construction companies, then at 31 set up his own office in Rome. His first spectacular chance to prove his worth came when he won a contract to build huge airplane hangars for the Italian air force. To avoid using scarce wood and steel, Nervi created a design in reinforced concrete with prefabricated vaulting, produced vast...
Your menu sounds tempting, but hasn't Chef Bunshaft just sliced off another savory hunk of the endless Skidmore, Owings & Merrill bologna...
...presbyopic, white-thatched, gangling bachelor of 67, Morandi lives with two sisters in a Bologna apartment that smells, sweetly, of the 19th century. The furniture is Victorian, the neighborhood old and still. Morandi spends his bottle-watching days in a sunny little studio overlooking the garden. "I never go out," he says, barely exaggerating. He works slowly, repainting each canvas many times, and producing perhaps a dozen finished pictures a year. These he sells for less than $200 each. They are often resold for ten times his price, but says he, "I would consider it an immoral exploitation...