Word: rome
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is the age of overlapping ages-the atomic age, the jet age, the space age, the age of cybernetics and now of protest. Time has been telescoped as never before. Rome enjoyed three centuries of imperial power. Britain dominated much of the world for 100 years. The U.S. has only recently emerged fully onto the world scene, its influence vast and apparently to continue; yet Americans have already begun to question the durability of their power. After the anguished strain of World War II, the country quickly learned to live with a cold war, making rather enlightened attempts...
Born in Osaka, the artist was encouraged to take up painting by his father, a businessman who was also a Sunday painter. Shingu studied oil painting at Tokyo University of Arts, and in 1960 went to Rome's famed Academia di Belle Arti. For months he devotedly copied early-Renaissance masterpieces. Then abruptly he turned abstract, eventually took up mobiles because they can be placed anywhere, indoors...
...Sake of Japan. Still in Rome in 1966, he served as a sightseeing guide for a visiting Japanese industrialist, Kageki Minami, president of the Osaka Shipbuilding Co. Minami admittedly knew nothing about art, but metalwork was his business. When he saw the mobiles in Shingu's Roman studio, he invited Shingu to come back to Japan and live and work in his shipyard, where there would be plenty of welders and painters to help him-to say nothing of unlimited amounts of scrap steel to work with...
Despite its pious title, the Institute for Religious Works in Rome is much less interested in theology than in economics. It is the Vatican's bank for investing the resources of Roman Catholic religious orders and charities from many parts of the world. Set up by Pope Pius XII 27 years ago, the institute manages a sizable portion of the Holy See's vast securities portfolio. Its guiding principle is the maxim that 1,000 lire sown today can reap 10,000 for charity tomorrow...
...year began, an American prelate in the Vatican took charge of the institute's affairs. He is Paul Marcinkus, a 47-year-old native of Cicero, Ill., and former special assistant to Pope Paul. In a 2 ½-hour ceremony in St. Peter's basilica in Rome, a choir chanted and Swiss Papal Guards stood stiffly at attention while Marcinkus prostrated himself at the Pope's feet to be made a bishop. The next morning, the burly Marcinkus, who stands 6 ft. 3 in., star ed his new job as the institute's Secretary...