Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unseemly Haste. Alarmed last year when ten acres of farm land across the Rhône from Vienne was acquired for the badly needed school, Archaeologists Serge Tourrenc and Marcel Le Glay quietly began to probe beneath a peach orchard, suspecting that it covered ancient ruins of Roman Vienne. Three feet beneath the surface, on their first try, they found a colorful Roman mosaic. They alerted Malraux, then, with his support, proceeded to excavate five acres of the orchard with almost unseemly haste, hoping to prove the historical value of the site before the townspeople of Vienne could realize that...
What they found exceeded their most optimistic hopes. They have uncovered a dozen luxurious villas, a tannery and dyeing factory, a highway and complex sewer and heating systems, all of which confirmed that Vienne was once a thriving Roman colony. Wealthy citizens decorated their homes with multicolored mosaics, 15 different kinds of marble, elaborate basins and fishponds. Because the town was often threatened by the flooding Rhône, there were drainage ditches six feet deep between each villa. To protect salt and wheat stored in villa storerooms from dampness, Vienne's architects partially buried between...
...preserve the site became clear, a storm of opposition arose among the citizens of modern Vienne, who insisted that their school had first priority. But the wily archaeologists, abandoning their reticence, called in the press and television, granted interviews, and soon had all of France talking about visiting the Roman ruins of Vienne. Flattered by the national publicity and suddenly fascinated by the city of their 1st, 2nd and 3rd century ancestors, Vienne's townspeople have now agreed to build their school on an adjoining 25-acre site -and to accept half a million dollars from Malraux...
...battle between the Roman Catholic hierarchy and dissident priests over Pope Paul's anti-contraception encyclical continues. Last week the major scene of conflict was Washington, D.C., where Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle suspended one of his priests and threatened 51 others with disciplinary action unless they abandon their opposition to the Pope's teaching...
Keyboard and Diamond. On and off the field, McLain has been tackling all comers with careless abandon ever since he was an eighth-grader in suburban Markham, Ill., and refused to wear the blue uniform tie prescribed by the Roman Catholic sisters at Ascension grade school. As Denny tells it: "Ten days or so before graduation, I decided I wasn't going to wear that goddam blue bow tie any more. So I ripped it off, and Sister said, 'Put that tie back on,' and I said, "I'll be damned if I'll put it on.' Well, she called...