Word: romane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Consult the People." In the bustling campaign preceding election day, Belgium's leading party, the Christian Socialists (Roman Catholics) had borne the Leopoldist banner. They counted on the backing of Catholic Flemings, who are partisans of Leopold's handsome commoner wife, Flemish Mary Liliane...
...Torlonia family (which came from France to Italy in the 18th Century) was Giovanni, a rag & bone merchant who became one of Europe's greatest financiers, lent money to kings and even to Napoleon's high-living kin. He bought a couple of ancient dukedoms, but Roman aristocracy-whose thin blue lineage is longer than almost anybody else's-sneered at the upstart. At one of Giovanni's lavish fetes, the French novelist Stendhal overheard a great Roman lady say: "Torlonia should not come to his own balls . . . One sees only too clearly that...
Except for Roman Catholic opposition on the detail of birth control information, the report was received last week with general acclaim in Britain. It has cleared the air of alarmist thinking, avoided absurd excesses of "population planning" (see cut) and made a start toward public policy on a problem that faces many nations-how to induce the more intelligent groups to have enough children to reproduce themselves...
...year of his conversion to Roman Catholicism, Gill was commissioned to do the Stations of the Cross in Westminster Cathedral. Gill carved them in "what might be called an archaic manner; but I wasn't doing it on purpose, but only because I couldn't carve in any other way." Next came a commission to carve Prospero and Ariel for London's Broadcasting House. Gill transformed them into God the Father and God the Son. Finally he was asked to do a 55-ft. frieze for the League of Nations council hall at Geneva. Gill suggested...
Production Code to forestall harsher action by public censors. The pressure group it fears most is the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency ("a C rating for a picture is death"). One speaker (protectively anonymous in the report) said: "[The Legion] is something that Hollywood should have fought and didn't ... for the same reasons that they have never fought anything: they didn't want to stop the flow of film for one week." ¶The U.S. mass audience, even the moviemakers admitted, is more grownup in its tastes than the run of movies are, and would support more...