Word: rome
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John's length, 601 ft., is surpassed only by the 718 ft. of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome...
Fear & Joy. Lemercier got permission from Rome to try again, and slowly built St. Mary's near the ruins of the old monastery. The intense work, combined with worries about his health-he eventually lost his left eye because of cancer-put him under great stress. One night in October 1960, according to his Dialogues, he had a vision of lightning flashes. Feelings of fear and joy swept over him; tearfully he cried out, "My God, why don't you speak to me?" Suspecting that he was going insane, he turned for help to Mexican Psychoanalyst Gustao Quevedo...
...experiment in group therapy was approved by Cuernavaca's Bishop Sergio Méndez Arceo. Alarmed by Lemercier's innovation, the Vatican sent several investigators to Cuernavaca, and last year Lemercier went to Rome to explain the results to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. He is still there, and in response to his pleas, Pope Paul has appointed a commission of three cardinals to review his case-and, in effect, the broad question of whether psychotherapy is a proper means of helping a man decide whether he is truly called to the monastic life...
...year-old author reflected that "for the past 30 years, I have been engaged in a fruitless effort to save Rome." Like Rome, Mumford maintained modern society "is drifting from bad to worse," refusing to learn the lessons of the past, forcing "life from its side...
Time to Flee. To see such sights today in Herculaneum, writes Joseph Deiss, an amateur archaeologist and vice-director of the American Academy in Rome, is to "walk 2,000 years into the past." The world is more familiar with what happened to neighboring Pompeii on the same day that Herculaneum died; erupting on Aug. 24, A.D. 79, Vesuvius buried Pompeii in a sudden fiery rain of stone and ash, entombing nearly one-tenth of its 20,000 citizens and inflicting terrible damage on the city. Herculaneum, however, was more fortunate. Granted time by the wind, which blew west toward...