Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Decline & Fall. Italy, in the belated spring of 1947, looked deceptively like a country in happy convalescence. From the Po down to Palermo, fields were green and fertile, and the people were hard at work. In the northern cities, many factories were going full blast and foreign visitors marveled (as they had before) at the patched-up trains, running on time. Fruits, vegetables and meat choked city markets...
Audiences fall into four categories: 1) Tabular* (from 9 to 11:15) for the Cardinals and high Vatican officials through whom Pius administers the ecclesiastical and political affairs of the Church; 2) Private (11:15 to 12:15) for diplomats and other bigwigs, in the Pope's own library; 3) Special (12:15 to 12:45) for not-so-bigwigs, in one of the library's anterooms, where they must wait for the Pope to come to them; 4) Public (12:45 to 1:30 or 2) for groups of pilgrims and miscellaneous visitors...
Painter Levi spent only one year in Gagliano, because he was one of the political prisoners to whom the triumphant Fascists granted amnesty after the fall of Addis Ababba. Christ Stopped at Eboli, a best-seller in Italy, is Levi's account of this year of exile. It is another instance of an able, discerning painter taking up a pen and thereby putting professional writers in the shade...
Spiralling costs hit another Ivy League College last night as President Harold W. Dobbs of Princeton, announced that "because of rising costs in all categories of University operation" tuition charges for the academic year will be increased from $500 to $600 dollars, starting next fall...
Starting the casting for a production so early is an innovation for the Workshop, Jerome Kilty '50, president of the organization, said. By gaining an early start, the VTW hopes to eliminate academic worries for its cast when school-work resumes next fall...