Word: ils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Italians la dolce vita has turned as harsh and unpleasant as the unseasonably cold and wet Roman spring. The economic miracle of Il Boom has petered out, leaving inflation and unemployment. The average Italian worker now spends $1.22 of his $1.55 hourly salary merely for food and shelter. Unemployment stands at 1,167,000, or 6.1% of the working force. Housing is so limited that every city has its shack dwellers-while Italy has a surplus of empty luxury apartments. Hospitals are desperately overcrowded; schools are running on three shifts. Rome University, built to cope with 12,000 students...
...castle associated with Pope Celestine V, who quit the papacy in 1294 after only five months in office. Within the past month, two Rome weeklies have primed the speculation. L'Espresso ran a poll of Curia opinions on whether Paul would step down (65% said no), and Il Mondo suggested waggishly that an unnamed cardinal was making book on the question. There are good reasons for Paul's retirement to be doubtful. For one thing, it would tend to reduce the office of Christ's Vicar on Earth by giving it a Protestant-style, temporal term...
...sight calculated to make a revenue agent cry. The Roman nobleman, due to be tapped for several years' back taxes, welcomed the man from il Fisco to a scene of genteel poverty. Instead of valuable paintings on the apartment walls, there were only pale squares. The closet held a couple of threadbare suits. The prince offered the agent a Nazionale cigarette from a Marlboro package, explaining that he could no longer afford the real thing but had to keep up appearances...
Dante did, however, make his point. Rome's Il Messaggero editorialized that "once poor Christians were thrown to the lions in the Colosseum. Now other poor Christians go there who have no other way to make themselves heard." Eventually, a city hall official climbed up to give Dante a letter promising him the license he wanted; feverish and weary, Dante climbed down from his aerie. Rome's embarrassed city council issued a statement that future requests for municipal favors "must always follow the stipulated administrative norms," but that may be easier said than enforced. Two days later, four...
...army's chief of staff. In 1956 he led an armed column of raiders up from the South to attack police barracks in Ulster, which landed him in Dublin's Bridewell Prison on his return. While still in jail, he was elected to the Irish Dáil (House of Representatives) on the Sinn Fein ticket, but he did not serve. During the late 1960s, he was one of those who opposed the growing Marxist influence in the movement ("The Communists would have stolen the movement's suit, its clothes, its name") and helped form the breakaway...