Word: roman
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...search of any other signs, a Roman friend told me about an old Italian fable that tells of a boy who can understand what the animals are saying to each other. The special gift saves the young lad from a litany of perilous encounters until one evening, while resting under a tree with two friends, he hears two little birds sharing the news from Rome that the Pope had died. The cardinals are set to elect a successor, one bird tells the other, and one of the three boys under the tree will be the next pope. This of course...
...Tuesday, April 19, 11 pm, Vatican City Romans have an old adage that captures their world-wise acceptance of life's minor calamities: "When a Pope dies," they say, "you find another." Inhabitants of the Eternal City, which has absorbed so much history, apply the metaphor when governments fall or jobs are lost or a bus breaks down. And indeed, as we have witnessed today and over the past two weeks, the Roman Catholic Church remains quite adept at filling a void even as large as the loss of John Paul II. Replacing an absolute monarch without the benefit...
...Schermerhorn, Coke's brand manager, made an urgent telephone call last Monday to Alvin Schechter, creative director of the Schechter Group, a Manhattan design firm. By 10 p.m. Tuesday, Schechter had completed the assignment. The red can features the traditional Coca-Cola script with the word "Classic" in black roman type...
Orthodox Rabbi Harvey Falk of Brooklyn believes that much interreligious tension need never have existed at all. His current book, Jesus the Pharisee: A New Look at the Jewishness of Jesus, just issued by a Roman Catholic publisher (Paulist Press; 175 pages; $8.95), contends that Jews and Christians alike fail to grasp Jesus' ties to the competing Jewish factions of his time. Christians, says Falk, have misunderstood some of the teachings of Jesus, while Jews have been needlessly hostile toward "Yeshua ha Notzri" (Jesus of Nazareth). Falk's book offers a provocative and controversial theory on Christian origins...
...kinds informed the short stories, essays and 18 novels that brought him acclaim and popularity in the East bloc as well as the West and provided unfailing moral guideposts for his countrymen; of complications of arteriosclerosis; in Hürtgenwald, West Germany. Brought up in a deeply religious Roman Catholic family resistant to Nazism, he served six years as a Wehrmacht conscript on both fronts. He emerged as a pacifist and foe of all establishments, governmental, religious and bureaucratic, and began writing novels of protest against war (The Train Was on Time, 1949; Adam, Where Art Thou, 1951), then went...