Word: rome
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...supposedly in communion with the See of Peter, have essentially repudiated the legitimate teachings of the Roman Pontiff [Nov. 22]. Who knows, these enlightened individuals may next choose to elect their own "assistant Pope" who somehow will share the teaching authority of the Pontiff. And someday the Church of Rome may be declared to be nothing more than a schismatic sect...
From the Alps to Sicily, 12 million workers walked off their jobs in a one-day general strike that paralyzed Italy. With Communist and anti-Communist unions allied in protest for the first time in twenty years, demonstrators poured into the piazzas of Rome and Milan to demand higher pension and social security benefits and to curse the rising cost of living. Outside the Fiat automobile plant in Turin, police broke up a riot with tear...
Mirko came to America in 1957 to organize the University's design courses, although he was already an established sculptor and had designed the famous bronze gates for the Ardeatine Caves in Rome. He teaches because he's interested in students and wants to give them "something different [in training] than what I had." Mirko studied traditional art school methods in Italy...
...rude about Hector Berlioz," says English Conductor Colin Davis, and he wishes they would quit. Alas, poor Berlioz has suffered more than his share. In 1829, when he was 25, he submitted his passionately theatrical piece for soprano and orchestra, Cléopâtre, to the Prix de Rome committee. It was rejected with a scolding from one of the judges, who said, "You refuse to write like everybody else. Even your rhythms are new. You would invent new modulations if such a thing were possible." The story goes that when Gioachino Rossini was shown Berlioz' score...
Silone now lives in Rome, nurturing his aversion to politics, as well as rewriting and reissuing his novels. To ex-Communists and younger, unencumbered New Leftists, he is a veteran saint of the revolution for social justice and individual dignity. Yet, as keeper of the flame, Silone is an exceedingly human presence: Columnist Murray Kempton once described him as looking and talking like a tobacconist...