Word: landing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tossing on his canopied bed in his crenelated castle, Prince Vittorio spent sleepless nights, sweating with worry. Later he said that he worked out this argument: "If we live in a capitalist world, that land is ours because it has belonged to my family and Arsoli for generations. If we live in a Christian state and the capital takes water from us, it should at least not let us starve." The young prince remembered that his family includes two Popes-St. Anastasius (died 401) who denounced the Origenist heresy, and St. Pasquale (died 824) who stood up to the Frankish...
...more in the Rio Doce Valley far to the south. SESP has built and staffed three fine hospitals and Brazil's best nursing school. It has also built 42 health posts, 14,000 privies, and a dike at Belem that has reclaimed 5,000 acres of land from the sea. Over a two-year period in the Amazon, SESP doctors have made 297,000 medical examinations, 143,000 laboratory examinations, administered 156,000 treatments...
Beard insisted that American history was not only a record of great men, of wars and politics-but also of the way ordinary men & women had lived in their land, and of the social and economic forces that had led and pushed them. In An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution (1913) he probed into the personal motives of the Founding Fathers themselves, suggested that as men of property they had been privately interested in a charter that would protect their own wealth. To older historians, such an approach was blasphemous. Harvard's grizzled Albert Bushnell Hart declared the book...
Chariot is content to stay within the few blocks that hold the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, a Roman Catholic Church, and his white frame house on Boulder Crescent. Colorado has, of course, other attractions for Chariot. "Since I came to this outdoor-loving land," says he, "I am engaging in contemplating fishing. That is to say, I am contemplating...
Billy Rose had already given five columns worth of detailed advice to the Metropolitan Opera Association on how to cure its ills (TIME, Sept. 6). Last week, he tossed off some parting general prescriptions, called them his "fond adieu to the fair land of Culture and Confusion...