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...resemblance between the Catholic Church in America and the Gospel of Jesus Christ." While affirming their belief "in the liberating message of the Gospel," the laymen noted that they were "black first and then Catholic." Fourteen demands were then adopted unanimously and delivered to the Washington residence of Archbishop Luigi Raimondi, the Apostolic Delegate to the U.S., for transmission to Pope Paul VI. Among them...
...during the first decade of the 20th century, this event has usually taken place in St. Peter's Basilica, a resplendent setting that is unfortunately characterized by slushy acoustics and poor visibility. Centerpiece of the current Vatican construction is a sleek new papal audience hall designed by Pier Luigi Nervi, with well-planned, air-conditioned facilities for 14,000 pilgrims. Once it goes into use, the atmospheric old St. Peter's audiences will fade forever. Last week TIME'S Rome Bureau Chief Jim Bell revisited one to savor the sights and sounds -and smells-for the last...
...Boston Opera Company has achieved some tremendous successes. Its performance of Luigi Nono's Intoleranza several seasons ago was a major cultural event, and a source of controversy for many months. This week it will give the world premiere of Gunther Schuller's new opera. The Fisherman and His Wife . But now that the Back Bay Theatre has been torn down, the Company has to search hard to find a place to perform. This year's production of Donizetti's The Daughter of the Regiment had to be held in a hall at Tufts University in Medford. This effectively closed...
...Italian way of life," Luigi Barzini argued in The Italians, "makes laws and institutions function defectively. The unsolved problems pile up and inevitably produce catastrophes at regular intervals." Last week, with a mountainous heap of unsolved problems plaguing the nation, Italy's national government was running one step ahead of catastrophe. After seven unsettling weeks of government by caretaker, Christian Democrat Mariano Rumor finally put together a coalition Cabinet that was acceptable to the same grouping of center and left-wing parties that has ruled Italy, after a fashion, for the past seven years. It was the third government...
...past the professorship has been held by such men as T. S. Eliot, Igor Stravinsky, Ben Shahn. Sir Herbert Read. R. Buckminster Fuller, and Pier Luigi Nervi. This year the chair is held by Lionel Trilling, the noted critie...