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...Israel was proclaimed a state on May 15, 1948, according to the Gregorian calendar that some Arabs follow. Israelis celebrated the event on April 23rd, the 21st anniversary by the Jewish lunisolar calendar...
This last is just the sort of phonetic parallel Nabokov relishes. Similarly, he is fond of insisting that, with minor adjustments for Julian and Gregorian dating systems, he shares an April 23 birth date with William Shakespeare. But then, he adds, "So does Shirley Temple...
That conclusion seemed almost as unlikely as the conference site itself: Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University. Meeting under the joint sponsorship of the Vatican and the University of California at Berkeley, and financed by the Fiat auto company's Giovanni Agnelli Foundation, two dozen scholars from eight countries set out to explore "The Culture of Unbelief." In their collective view, the world's supposed infidels are more sinned against than sinning-and sometimes more religious than those who call them unbelievers...
Cruel Realities. The confrontation was inevitable, if long in developing. Restlessly brilliant, Illich has an ironically orthodox background: he has a doctorate in history from Salzburg University, studied theology at Rome's centuries-old Capram'ca and philosophy at the Vatican's prestigious Gregorian University. By the time he was 31, he was vice-rector of Catholic University in Puerto Rico and a monsignor. But in 1960 he disagreed with the political intervention of Puerto Rico's Bishop James McManus when the bishop tried to forbid Catholics to vote for Governor Luis Muñoz Marin...
Papal Advance Man. An unofficial advisory panel of bankers and financiers counsels the Vatican. Among them is Guido Carli, president of the Bank of Italy. By his own admission, Marcinkus needs all the help he can get. A genial and highly popular prelate who studied at Rome's Gregorian University for priests, he is a first-class organizer, but readily confesses: "I have no banking experience." Since 1959, he has been a member of the Vatican Curia-the central administration of the church. He was principal planner and advance man on Pope Paul's foreign trips...