Word: clearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the first day of voting last Sunday, Wojtyla nonchalantly read a quarterly review of Marxist theory as the timeconsuming balloting dragged on. "Don't you think it's sacrilegious to bring Marxist literature into the Sistine Chapel?" joked a Cardinal. Wojtyla smiled. "My conscience is clear...
After the lunch-and-siesta break, Siri slipped back; Benelli gained, but never reached more than 36. Ugo Poletti, Vicar Cardinal of Rome, got 30 votes as an unsuccessful compromise candidate. It was becoming clear that the Curial-conservative alliance would not accept Benelli, who had alienated them with his power-wielding at the Vatican; paradoxically, he was now deemed an anti-Curialist, partly for his backing of John Paul I. Nor were Benelli's backers about to vote for a dinosaur like Siri, who had recently been quoted in a Turin paper as saying, "Collegiality? I don't even...
Italian Communists hope to convince the new Pope that there is a clear distinction between their Eurocommunism and the Communism in Eastern Europe. The effort, concedes one Party editor, "may push us to emphasize more and more sharply our difference from Soviet and East European Communists." In any case, the editor acknowledges, "when this Pope speaks about Communism he will do it with much more authority than past Pontiffs. People will believe his words more than they believed theirs." After three decades of jousting with Communism, John Paul II could hardly expect less...
...citizenship by a punitive Reconstruction Era Congress, Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, died in 1889. In 1975, General Robert E. Lee's citizenship was restored, leaving Davis the sole Confederate leader still ostracized. Carter agreed that enough was enough. Said he: "Our nation needs to clear away the guilts, enmities and recriminations of the past...
...Even her passion has poise," Schwamm writes of Natalie. The same may be said of Schwamm's minor-key prose, remarkably suited to evoking those "moments of clear, bright, sufficient joy" that elevate life and redeem grief...