Word: rome
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Scrapping the Clichés. The Bolshoi's new extravaganza, with its 400 onstage musicians and dancers, tells the story of Rome's slave uprising as outlined by Sallust and Plutarch, ending in the betrayal and death of the slaves' leader, the gladiator Spartacus (a favorite historical character of Karl Marx). Composer Khachaturian, a Stalin Prizewinner, diplomatically finds the ballet apt "at a time when many peoples are fighting for liberation and colonial rule is crumbling...
...Italian Cabinet minister, anti-Communist Socialist who once shouted in a party convention: "We have become just the boot cleaners of the Communists, who-if the truth were known-are highly amused with our efforts to discover our soul," later led an intraparty revolt against Communist ties; in Rome...
...ELLIOTT CAMP Rome...
This week, in Rome's spacious National Gallery of Modern Art, a show of the work of bearded, tormented Jackson Pollock is still creating a commotion, though he has been dead for a year and a half. But even as the dead artist scores abroad, Manhattan is getting an exciting look (in the Martha Jackson Gallery) at seventeen oils painted by Lee Krasner after her husband's death...
...Never before in history," said Samuel Alphonso Cardinal Stritch, "has an American prelate been appointed to such high office." He was referring to himself. From Rome last week came news that Pope Pius XII had appointed him proprefect of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith. Under the aged (85) prefect, Pietro Fumasoni Cardinal Biondi 70-year-old Cardinal Stritch will head the church's entire missionary effort...