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Word: imperiale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rome is history's eternal litmus aper. Dipped in the perceptions f an era or an individual, it changes color-republican white, imperial purple, Christian gold-indicating the nature of those perceptions and their changes from one century to the next. Comparing Giovanni Battista Piranesi's etchings and Herschel Levit...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: The Eternal City Exposed in Time | 2/12/1976 | See Source »

With the self-assurance of an imperial proconsul, Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam last week presided over a cease-fire in Lebanon that Damascus had not merely proposed but had imposed. At Beirut's presidential palace, the amiable diplomat-many Lebanese have already begun calling him the "Kissinger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Now It's Syria Superstar | 2/9/1976 | See Source »

Among the dedicated and often fanatical men who led the Chinese Communist Party, Chou was unique. Mao, though a poet and an intellectual, was also a soldier who had much in common with the rough, parochial peasant comrades who forged the revolution. By contrast, Chou was silkenly urbane, almost a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: A BUILDER, NOT A POET | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

"Children ask of the story what they ask of a dream," observed Poet Randall Jarrell, "that it satisfy their wishes." For more than a century, Hans Christian Andersen has satisfied the wishes of the Western world's children. One hundred years after his death he remains the unsurpassed master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Ugly Duckling | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

Japan controlled the southern half of Sakhalin from 1905, when it took it as a trophy of its victory in the Russo-Japanese War, until 1945. During World War II the Koreans were installed in labor camps on the island to replace Japanese men conscripted into the imperial forces. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: The Forsaken People | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

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