Word: roman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Student-led demonstrators in Seoul battled police in the most widespread protests in years. Waving Korean flags and chanting "Down with dictatorship!," one group beat police outside the huge Shinsegye department store. At the Roman Catholic Myongdong Cathedral in the heart of the city, protesters built barricades and hurled fire bombs at police, who advanced behind volleys of tear...
...habit of attending loosely programmed outdoor chapel meetings known here and there as love-ins, be-ins or demonstrations and punctuated, more or less, with the admonition, "Peace and love, pass it on." That was the year that Rinpoche came to these shores, taking off like a Roman candle lit at both ends. He traveled and taught indefatigably, setting up scores of urban meditation and study centers, the two most prominent in Boulder and in Barnet, Vt. He had tapped a vein. A section of what used to be called the counterculture desired a guru, and here...
...Krier's IBA architecture is great, all of it is good. His best is the main building (of nine) of a rather formal housing estate near the Tiergarten, West Berlin's big central park. The main facade, an outthrust white shield, could be the refurbished fragment of an ancient Roman circus. But in pure postmodern fashion, the metaphors are freely mixed: facing the long central lawn on the interior is a handsome pair of neo-medieval towers in red brick, and windows copied, it seems, from a 19th century factory...
...four grade schools. One he left after a fight with a friend, which he now calls "stupid." One he left because the school had problems with fights, guns, knives, and gangs. One he left because of a feud with his math teacher. In sixth grade he transfered to a Roman Catholic school where on the first day the teacher gave the class a test on Roman numerals. Never having seen Roman numerals before, he scored a 57. Sample says with a grin that the teacher thought he was stupid and that she graded tests incorrectly. "I took them back...
...that democracy there "has ceased to exist." Paisley is wrong on both points. The agreement declares that Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic will never be reunified without Protestant consent. As for democracy, the Anglo-Irish Agreement was specifically designed to foster democracy by granting rights to the large Roman Catholic minority, which until then was powerless and had consistently been denied its rights...