Word: piana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George La Piana, John H. Morison Professor of Church History, spoke on the Vatican in international problems today, and predicted a stormy conflict between the Fascist and non-Italian forces in the next Conclave, which will meet in the event of Plus XI's death...
...Piana dia Greci--on a mountain top and miles from nowhere it seemed--and I was told by a professor from Oxford, whose name I think it will be best not to mention, that they spoke modern Greek in the village; and from other sources, less scholarly but more accurate, that the women there have a reputation for their beauty and the men for their great self assurance...
Anyway, the man from Brooklyn knew the Priest who did speak Greek but told me he learned it at school and he was the only one in Piana dia Greci who knew it. Everyone else was a descendant of the first colony of Albanian Greeks who came there during the war in 1488 and spoke Italian or a bastard Greek, which no Athenian could understand today. Then he gave me goat's milk and blessed me; asked me to take his picture, and so I did. Thus endeth my great trip adventure of exploration, a sad failure. But tomorrow...
...Italy in the Eighteenth Century," Professor La Piana, Sever...
...Harvard always has and still does show an interest in the humanities," said Professor La Piana when asked if he believed the University was veering away from being a liberal arts school. "And the election of a scientific man, Mr. Conant to the position of president, does not mean that the liberal arts idea will be superseded by a scientific one; President Conant seems to be just as much in favor of the liberal arts as he is of science. We must realize the difference between American and European culture, if we are to understand the liberal arts situation...