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Tall, white and handsome, the Most Rev. Michael Ramsey, hundredth Archbishop of Canterbury and spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, made ecclesiastical history by preaching in Manhattan's Roman Catholic St. Patrick's Cathedral at a service attended by Terence Cardinal Cooke and Archbishop lakovos of the Greek Orthodox Church of North and South America. He also caught a performance of the controversial rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar and observed: "In spite of everything, a bit of Christianity did come over." Other Ramseyisms: "There is a bit of a wish for women priests in England, but I should...
...current champion of Roman monument perchers is Dante Ottaviani, 27, who last week set a city record by perching for seven days and seven nights on the rim of the Colosseum, 150 ft. above the cobblestones. A one-time petty criminal turned street peddler, Ottaviani was protesting the fact that the cops had confiscated his stock of transistor radios and cigarette lighters on the grounds that he did not have a proper license to sell them...
...citizens of Rome have a peculiar way of venting their frustrations. Instead of climbing walls, they climb monuments. Several times a year, some angry Roman or other makes his way to the top of the Colosseum, the dome of St. Peter's or the monument to King Victor Emmanuel II, where he stands or sits for a while in a public expression of outrage. Police and firemen are so nervous about the popularity of monument perching that last week they scrambled onto the dome of the Pantheon to rescue Liza Barkley, 19, a tourist from Philadelphia. Liza was hustled...
Such a vision--whose form follows in the tradition of the nouveau roman--presents some challenging difficulties. But not without rewards: as sonorous and mysteriously evocative as Faulkner's, more poetically intense than Lawrence Durrell's, Hawkes's lyrical energy in The Blood Oranges conveys in prose more than the feeling of poetry--in fact, there are whole passages rendered metrically. One or two even contain rhymes...
...history of the Jews in the Diaspora and its "shame" completely and instead teach the youth to venerate their ancient ancestors who lived by the sword: the generation that originally conquered Canaan; the Maccabees who defeated the world-power Greece; most of all, the Zealots at Massada, who withstood Roman assault for two years and when the end was near committed mass suicide rather than live as slaves. It is a significant fact that Israeli soldiers are sworn in on the heights of Massada, overlooking the Dead...