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Hailed at first as a way to bring the Bible closer to the people, Vignal's La Bibbia soon encountered more trials than Job. The Italian Rabbinical Council denounced La Bibbia as "sacrilege"; Milan's Roman Catholic Cardinal Montini withdrew the nihil obstat of the church. Sales slumped, and ugly rumors grew that Vignal's crew of actors, who posed for the crude Biblical scenes, lived private lives of less than Biblical probity...
...Secunda? Immo edepol severae Musae tragoediae quibus tantum borribiles irae et mortes pallidae placent. Et non Venus benigna inter nos incedit sed illa Venus dirissima quae tantummodo incastos ritus saeviter fovet. O collegium Harvardianum, quale exemplum maestissimum ver et Venus tibi protulit! Ubinam gentium sunt Nymphae Gratiaeque decentes? Cur nihil nisi membra disiecta? Nam hac in Senecae fabula Ration Stoica nihil potest, et ubique regnat Furor et Cupido ct Caedesl Phaedra enim cui voluptas effrenata maximum habet imperium, noverca nec innocens nec Fato percussa, mala ex libidine constituit suum privignum Hippolytum stuprare. Qui tamen, documentum nobis omnibus gravissimum, ex nimis...
...Luigi Einaudi finishes his seven-year term next May. Fanfani also reportedly gave assurances of continued backing to the government of fellow Demo-Christian Mario Scelba, and promised that for the next year, at least, he would not seek public office. He arranged for the Vatican's vital nihil obstat, delivered by a spokesman: "The Vatican welcomes this induction of new energy in the Christian Democratic Party, without of course disparaging for one moment the paramount merits of the man who has now decided to step into the background." Vatican approval ended the risk that the party...
...Forti nihil difficile. This was translated by him literally as: "Nothing is difficult to the brave"-and by the Whigs as: "The impudence of some men sticks at nothing." Even the Tories wondered what they had gotten hold of when "that damned bumptious Jew boy" invaded their circles "in a black velvet coat lined with satin, purple trousers with a gold band . . . scarlet waistcoat, long lace ruffles . . . white gloves with jeweled rings outside them . . . well-oiled black ringlets touching his shoulders...
...Attila or Genghis Khan destined to destroy it. Yet in his private life he always remained a drab petty bourgeois, who chose drab Eva Braun for his mistress, and somewhat embarrassedly concealed the fact for 15 years. Wrote Roper: "There is a somewhat macabre contrast between the revolutionary nihil ism of his doctrines . . . and the back ground of coziness and triviality from which they proceeded: teacups and cream buns, cuckoo clocks and Bavarian bric-a-brac...