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Much of the new political approach originates from a Jesuit priest close to the Vatican-grey, ascetic Father Riccardo Lombardi, who heads a new organization called Per un Mondo Migliore (For a Better World). To the "Better World" school in the Alban Hills near Rome, priests come from all over Latin America to hear fervent weeks of lecturing on the new policies. Moreover, Father Lombardi recently traveled to Mexico, gave a special course to 100 bishops, including Cardinal Luque. gathered from all Latin America. His student-priests can use the church organization as an ear to the ground that...
...been a kind of Roman Catholic Billy Graham, firing hearers all over Italy with new zeal. But Father Lombardi believes that the enthusiasm in the crowds he left behind will not last without continuing leadership. To provide that leadership, he set up a new organization: Per un Mondo Migliore (For a Better World...
Bristling over these desecrations, Antonio Cederna, a young art critic, last year sounded off in the respected Il Mondo, decrying alike the government, the public and the "gangsters of the Appia"-all those, in short, who permitted or perpetrated the outrages along the ancient highway. Cederna's plan for restoring Appia Antica to its pristine beauty was simple and forthright: tear down every vestige of hideous modernity...
...such old and new operas as Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona and Prokofiev's The Duenna (TIME, June 14, 1948), was scratching his head for a surprise for his 1949 season. A friend told him about Haydn's 172-year-old dramma giocoso II Mondo della Luna (The World of the Moon), wherein a charlatan astronomer and some frolicsome servants persuade a fat, foolish father to bless the marriage of his daughter to a poet by taking him on a trip to the moon. It sounded like fun, but the first problem was to find the score...
Last week Il Mondo, disbelieving Generoso Pope's "newfound loyalty," challenged him to print his denunciation of Mussolini in his own papers in Italian. A couple of days later...