Word: dom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There, too, it was a kind of harvest time: the 35 Benedictine monks of Monte Cassino were rebuilding the Abbey stone by stone, with their hands. One of them, round little Dom Oderisco Graziosi, looked about him. "It takes an olive tree 30 years to bear fruit . . . For us it will be decades, perhaps centuries. But that day will come...
Very Slowly. Few, if any, of them will live to see the final restoration. Gaunt, 60year-old Dom Francesco Vignanelli, who once taught architecture in the Abbey's seminary, will be lucky to see the end of his own special task. From dawn to nightfall he sits in a shack, cataloguing and patching together the fragments of Monte Cassino's treasures: arms and heads of statues, chunks of carved wood, tiny bits of mosaic. "It goes very slowly," he said. "Still, we've rebuilt six statues...
Earlier in the year, when the birds were nesting, the monks discovered a nest of swallows above the altar in the newly patched crypt of Saint Benedict. Some of them proposed to tear it down. But Dom Oderisco Graziosi good-humoredly intervened. "Let them stay," he urged. "After all, they too are rebuilding...
...Dom Mauro Inguanez, Abbey librarian and archivist, visited the U.S. to start a fund-raising organization. He fell ill and his plans have not yet been carried out. *By the Lombards in 580; by the Saracens in 884; by earthquake in 1349; and by the French...
Among the rebellious rump of doctors, some were bitter-enders. Said one 63-year-old stalwart: "I'm an individualist. I'd rather cut my throat than sell my free dom." Said a smart practitioner with a large country practice: "I serve both my bank balance and my patients by staying out. There's no call for cheap services here, save for chauffeurs and gardeners...