Word: romane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million Anglicans in 1974, he became the first Evangelical to lead the Church of England in 126 years. Last week the zealous and professorial Archbishop traveled to Rome for his first meeting with Pope Paul VI and made an unexpected and dramatic bid for Anglican and Roman Catholic intercommunion...
...turned out a supremely unfashionable book. History: A Novel is a long, slow read. It is almost entirely lacking in sex or suspense; when characters are doomed, Morante sounds a warning well in advance of the event. The novel's main figures-Ida Mancuso, a widowed Roman schoolteacher, and her two sons -are neither witty nor especially bright. Ostensibly the book shows what happens to these three between the years 1940 and 1947, during the ravages of World War II and the uncertainties of its aftermath. In building her story, though, Morante also constructs a profound portrait of this...
...entire contents of a small room that Ida rents. This tangible solidity is threatened by the destructive mania that is called history. Morante prefaces her chapters (each of which deals with the occurrences of a single year) with lists of events that come close enough to scorch the Roman populace: treaties made and broken, victories, slaughters, final solutions, barbarities parading as statecraft. This constant juxtaposition of power and the powerless begins as an easy irony but slowly swells toward a cosmic pathos. While Mussolini strutted like a deranged buffoon, "Rome took on the appearance of certain Indian metropolises where only...
...Roman Stoicism. Morante does not try to account for the carnage of this century. Her characters bleed and fall, or carry on with Roman stoicism, the buffeting of their lives "a natural consequence of being born." The only sustained political argument in the book is given to a drug-addicted anarchist who argues, tautologically, that people would be better if people were better...
Died. William Cardinal Conway, 64, Roman Catholic Primate of All Ireland and 112th pastoral descendant of St. Patrick; after surgery for removal of his gall bladder; in Armagh, Northern Ireland. Born in Belfast, Conway was spiritual leader for Ireland's 3.5 million Catholics, including Ulster's 500,000. The tall, husky Cardinal condemned the civil turmoil in Northern Ireland, calling both Protestant and Catholic terrorists "monsters...