Word: romans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other partially excavated sites in Nubia and the Sudan-temples, forts, chapels, churches, mosques, tombs, prehistoric wall drawings-will be submerged in the 300-mile-long Nubian lake to be created by the building of the High Dam at Aswan. Rivaling Abu Simbel in historical value is the Greco-Roman temple on Philae Island, gradually built un over earlier ruins beginning in the 3rd century B.C. Philae is already flooded five months of the year by the existing dam at Aswan, and when the first stage of the new High Dam is completed upstream by Soviet engineers and Egyptian workmen...
Women live longer than men, but what kind of women live longest? Nuns, according to the results of two studies published by Dr. Con J. Fecher, professor of economics at the Roman Catholic University of Dayton (Ohio). The control of tuberculosis and other communicable diseases, to which members of a close community were especially prone, has added 14 years to a 20-year-old nun's life expectancy since the turn of the century. After comparing 90,000 nuns in 90 sisterhoods with white females throughout the U.S., from 1900 to 1958, Dr. Fecher also estimated that...
Died. Federico Cardinal Tedeschini, 86, a high member of the Roman Curia, datary to Pope John XXIII, onetime (1921-33) papal nuncio to Madrid, where he founded the militant Spanish Catholic Action, which later sided with Dictator Franco; of cancer; in Rome...
...since Hollywood Lyricist Howard Dietz wrote a new English libretto for La Boheme six years ago (Love, rhymed Dietz, "is a feast for a Roman/ It's warming my abdomen") had a Metropolitan Opera production created such a fuss. "Among the finest productions in Bing's regime," wrote Miles Kastendiek in the New York Journal-American. "Non-Mozartean shenanigans," snorted Howard Taubman in the Times, while the Herald Tribune's Paul Henry Lang denounced it as "a travesty." Occasion: a new production, staged by Broadway's Cyril Ritchard, of Mozart's comic masterpiece, The Marriage...
...many dramatic paradoxes in his life. He was a near-alcoholic; yet he pursued his writing craft with monastic austerity. He had the courage to face approaching blindness, eleven eye operations, and his daughter Lucia's madness, but he ran from dogs and thunder. He renounced Roman Catholicism, but he could never rid his mind of the systems of Aquinas and Aristotle. He loathed and left his native land, yet his bitterness was inverted longing. Small wonder that Nora once told a friend: "You can't imagine what it was like for me to be thrown into...