Word: rome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Welcome Home. Richard Gibson, in Manhattan from Paris for the publication of his new novel, A Mirror for Magistrates, points out that other Negro writers (Ralph Ellison, William Demby, Ben Johnson) have chosen Rome for their voluntary exile. He says: "All these people are in Europe because of social and political causes which everyone knows. The bright young white boys, after the end of their Fulbright scholarships, are able to return with reasonably light hearts to the dens of Madison Avenue or to the provincial Ph.D. factories. It is still impossible for an American Negro to return to the land...
...expressed concern that the six-nation European Common Market might shut out Canadian farm products; e.g., in 1957, 30% of Canada's exported wheat went to these six countries. He indicated Canada could not agree to De Gaulle's proposed French-British-U.S. NATO triumvirate. After Rome this week, Diefenbaker will head to Pakistan, part of the Commonwealth he hopes to galvanize...
...work at school; he was only eleven when he decided to be a priest, and though the expense meant a sacrifice for his parents, Angelo went to study at the seminary in Bergamo, the quiet, medieval "town of 100 churches." He won a scholarship to the Pontifical Seminary in Rome, was ordained at 25, and said his first Mass in St. Peter's Basilica...
...existentialism, has survived dangers from its own corruption during the Renaissance to physical attack during the Italian Risorgimento. Whatever threats Christianity will face under Pope John's reign will not necessarily be greater than the invasion of the Lombards from whom Gregory the Great (590-604) saved Rome. Whatever tests await Pope John's diplomacy will recall that behind him lies the record of Hildebrand (Gregory VII, 1073-1085), who kept Henry IV of Germany waiting barefoot in the snow for three days and established the spiritual authority of the church over the temporal power of monarchs...
...among the first to bring impressionist painting to America (in the 1890s) on the advice of a social equal who happened to be a great painter besides: Mary Cassatt. The wife of a millionaire Chicago hotelman and financier, Mrs. Palmer ruled wherever she chose to go: Newport, Paris, Rome. Invited to a party for the Infanta Eulalia of Spain, she firmly declined: "I cannot meet this bibulous representative of a degenerate monarchy." James McNeill Whistler remembered Rome as "a bit of an old ruin alongside of a railway station where I saw Mrs. Potter Palmer." But her picture-crammed castle...