Word: rome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sight. In a Rome nightclub two months ago with Brazil's metals-rich Francisco ("Baby") Pignatari, Linda lost a jade earring. Sympathetically, the 41-year-old Baby suggested a trip to Hong Kong for a replacement, and off they flew. When their shopping was done, they decided to go on around the world to Rio. Linda collected a few baubles along the way-including a $4,000 diamond "engagement ring...
...Against Rome, Luther denied the church's administration over God's grace -either to grant it or withhold it. Not church, he held, but scripture is the true channel of grace-the Word and man's will lead to faith, and faith in Jesus Christ will redeem man from his sins. So sure did he feel of "justification by faith" that in his translation of the Bible he dared to insert the word "alone"' on his own authority. Against what he saw as a privileged caste of priests, he maintained "the priesthood of all believers...
Among the buyers flocking to Manhattan galleries is a new and growing breed: European dealers and collectors bent on buying U.S. moderns. In recent months London's venerable Arthur Tooth & Sons has bought works of Pollock, Clyfford Still, Guston and Baziotes. Rome's Tartaruga gallery picked up paintings by James Brooks, Ad Reinhardt, Donati, Marca-Relli, Rothko and Franz Kline. Still others have been shipped to Paris...
Died. Alessandro Cardinal Verde, 93, oldest member of the Sacred College of Cardinals; in Rome. Remaining membership: 56 out of 70 authorized...
...caught his first sight of its Imperial Mosques, bestriding the seven-hilled skyline ''like huge kettledrums with something menacing and martial in their air, and in that moment [Istanbul] is alone and tremendous . . . more of a capital than any other city, more than London, or than Rome or Paris...