Word: romans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Regarding poor little Sue Ingersoll and her inflammatory bathing suit [July 27]: Can anything be more apparent from this episode than that the Roman Catholic hierarchy is using any and every means to control our public life? Pretty soon we won't be able to do anything much in a public way without the permission of Archbishop...
...great port in Carthaginian times. Later it was allied to Rome, but the city fathers made the mistake of siding with Pompey against Julius Caesar. For this the city was fined 300,000 measures of oil annually. Later still it became the home town of a Roman emperor, Septimius Severus, who made it one of the grandest and wealthiest cities of the empire. Nubian slaves, lions for the Roman arenas, ivory and African gold flowed through Leptis Magna into the civilized world, until the harbor silted up. Marauding Vandals sacked the city. Then, in A.D. 523 Berber raiders depopulated...
Died. Michael Moses Coady, 77, Roman Catholic priest-director of the extension department of Nova Scotia...
...Story. Audrey Hepburn in a gloriously photographed but religiously shallow study of a Roman Catholic nun who finds that she can keep only two of her vows-obedience is her undoing...
...Satyricon of Petronius. A bawdy belly laugh at Nero's Rome delivered by the worldliest Roman of them all and translated with unexpurgated wit by Classicist William Arrowsmith...