Word: roman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mother was a "fervent Christian" who prayed daily and lit candles to the Virgin Mary and the saints. His father, a well-to-do farmer, had no time for religion. Castro was not baptized until he was five or six, but all his education until university was in Roman Catholic schools. "If someone were to ask, 'When did you have a religious conviction?' I'd say I never really had one," says Castro. "In school they weren't able to inculcate me with those values...
...justices' 2,000-page decision. He and his brethren, he explained, had studied the country's criminal code and all the legal depositions presented to them. They had consulted international law specialists and considered the theories of conventional and revolutionary warfare, as well as the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. But, said Arslanian, "we have not found one single rule that justifies, much less excuses, the authors of facts that have been brought before this trial...
...culturally complex--a Jew steeped in ancient Greek philosophy who spent his life among Muslims and influenced Christian Europe. As Soviet Scholar Vitali Naumkin told the Paris meeting, "Maimonides is perhaps the only philosopher in the Middle Ages, perhaps even now, who symbolizes a confluence of four cultures: Greco-Roman, Arab, Jewish and Western...
...dogs I breed and sell to support my cat." Ironically, he was a livelier and in some ways more interesting writer when he catered to public tastes. Goodbye to All That still crackles with malice and the vivid absurdities of trench warfare. I, Claudius, the imaginary memoir of a Roman emperor whom historians had largely derided or ignored, manages to be both intelligent and spellbinding...
...fighting semiparalysis from a stroke; yet the blunt, stabbing paint marks and the drawing that break from high academic certitude into the quavers of a loaded brush--not to mention the conception of Christ's humiliation before the Jews in contemporary dress, with a German officer as Roman centurion--are grittily eloquent...