Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Canterbury? Roman Canterbury, near the seacoast of Kent, was a convenient stopping place for travelers to Britain. Here in 597 A.D. came that ardent Benedictine, St. Augustine, a missionary from Rome, to found a monastery and become the first Archbishop of Canterbury, even before the Norman Conquest. Ever since then Canterbury's archbishops have been England's primates, by simple priority. The archbishopric of York, far to England's north, was established two centuries later, not to challenge the authority of Canterbury but purely for administrative reasons...
...Senator Varro, once of Rome, had thought it best to exile himself in Syria after the death of his friend and protector, the Emperor Nero. Varro had grown to like and understand the East; thanks to his money and his sympathetic shrewdness he had become one of the most potent men in Syria. Then fate sent to Antioch, as Roman Governor, Varro's old acquaintance and antipathy, Cejonius. Because Cejonius, a cut-&-dried type of administrator, did Varro down on the little matter of a tax bill, Varro privately swore vengeance. He soon found a way to get even...
...rule, at first wildly popular, grew into hated tyranny as "Nero's" hangers-on, whom Varro found it harder & harder to control, made hay by killing and confiscating right & left. By the time Cejonius was removed from his post and a new Governor came out from Rome with enough troops to stamp out the rebellion, "Nero's" government was collapsing from its own rottenness. Crafty Varro did not wait to gloat over Cejonius' downfall or to see what became of his puppet. He took refuge with the potent King of Parthia, where his suavity and brains were...
...follow a nice woman around Italy" . . . . A sleepy donkey pulling a colorful cart laden with flowers along a road high above the sea looking towards the Bay of Naples just at sunrise . . . . A white goat kick a streamlined diesel engine which had just run over its baby . . . . In Rome one Sunday afternoon: A woman, ermine fur, Pekinese in arms, walking with a gentleman with top hat, cane; woman hesitates, looks round, gives dog to man and screws up big awning of grocery store...
Galbraith plans to spend most of the year in Cambridge, England, dividing a probable four months between Rome and Berlin for the rest...