Word: rome
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...Viet Nam "an ideological character similar to the holy wars of former times." In such a conflict, punishment has "particularly little likelihood of success." The notion, he added, that one can "cause people to abandon their ideologies by inflicting pain on them should have died in Rome with the Christian martyrs...
...brother is not a father in the Roman Catholic Church-and establishing the distinction perennially bothers the brothers. Currently meeting in Rome to stress their identity and work toward reform, Vatican Council style, are general chapters of two of these little-understood congregations: the Brothers of the Christian Schools, and the Christian Brothers of Ireland...
...prostitution in Saigon; he had hardly gone so far as to characterize the whole city as a brothel. It took Fulbright to make that assumption-and irritate his supporters as well as his detractors. "Saigon is no more an American brothel, literally or figuratively, than was Seoul, Berlin, Rome or wartime London," said the New Republic, which generally goes along with the Senator's criticism of U.S. foreign policy. Fulbright's simplistic generalizations, added the magazine, are a "sad indication of what Viet Nam has done...
Steaming Courtesans. Now 65 years old, Marini likes to call himself an Etruscan, after those sturdy people who flourished in his native Tuscany before the grandeur of Rome. His figures wear an antique patina. His bronzes are left pitted by their plaster casts or are particolored from carefully ladled-on corrosive dyes; his wooden statuary is daubed with earthy tints, oil paints clinging to the surfaces as in flaking frescoes. Even his lush-thighed Pomonas, named for the ancient Italian goddess of fruit trees, seem like the petrified victims of the last days of Pompeii. But as currently displayed...
Born. To Anthony Quinn, 50, cinema's leading man of many ethnic parts (Attila the Hun, Zorba the Greek), and lolanda Addolori, 31, his Venice-born second wife of four months: their third child, third son; in Rome...