Word: roman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roman nobles began drifting into the Café de Paris, too, and nowadays Principessa Giovanelli, Marchese Bottini and assorted Orsinis and Caracciolos are regularly paged over the Café's new loudspeakers. Says a less exalted Roman who recently abandoned his longtime table at Doney's: "I like Americans. But I like my Roman friends, too. And the place to see them is at the Café de Paris." Inevitably, more and more Americans in Rome are beginning to take the same line. Said one two-week tourist: "I like to watch strange people...
...life was brightened by their robes (all of Rome's foreign seminarians wear robes with national markings). The Irish-Americans who helped found the college considered green, but the final choice was black cassocks with red buttons and sash and blue facings which, together with a white Roman collar, added up to the U.S. colors (the first class even had a brass star on each shoe strap...
Message from John. After weathering the Civil War (when enrollment was down to five), the North American College gradually became part of the Roman scene. In 1928 North American College students helped ease expanding Rome's shortage of priests by assisting at Masses and blessing Roman buildings on Holy Saturday. Noted one exhausted student priest in his diary: "Blessed six palazzi. Everything possible. Butcher shop. Wine cellar. Sleeping baby. Woman 91 years old. Water-when...
...Slope of Burgundy to the chateaux of Bordeaux, 1959 will be remembered not as the year of De Gaulle and Algeria but as the year of the Great Wine. Thousands of winemakers have already pronounced this year's vintage "transcendent, magnificent." Mile. Genevieve Clin, manager of the famed Romanée-Conti vineyards, her vines laden with small, almost black bunches of grapes dimpled by the sun and heavy with sugar, said as the harvest began: ''When you look at the bunches, you only see the fruit. You don't see the wood any more...
...blows of poor quality and decreased quantity. The quality of this year's vintage is matched only by its quality. Jean Latour, producer of the rare white Burgundy, Croton-Charlemagne. says that in this century there has never been a year as abundant or as good. In the Romanée-Conti vineyards, the wine-men say that God waited until Archbishop Roncalli (who blessed the fields after the war, when he was papal nuncio in France) became Pope before answering his plea for a splendid crop...