Word: rome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...staircase, a figure of Zacharias writing the name of John the Baptist on a tablet at the prompting of an angel, a memory of the Laocoon-the great Hellenistic figure group that had so impressed Michelangelo when he saw it, newly dug up from a vineyard, in Rome. Though a few of the sketches may be by Michelangelo's assistants, the authenticity of most of them was accepted by nearly all the experts who visited the room as restorers brought them to light. Says Professor Herbert Keutner, director of the German Art History Institute in Florence: "Their discovery...
Street, who has worked as a free-lance violinist in the Boston area for the last two years, is best known as a composer. In 1973, he won the prestigious Rome Prize for composition and several of his works have been performed in Boston this year...
...campaign, predicts TIME Rome Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante, "will force issues, heighten tensions and test nerves" as past elections rarely have. Ostensibly voters will choose from among nine parties; but in fact the campaign will be a three-way struggle among the Christian Democrats (D.C.), the Communist Party (P.C.I.) and the Socialists (P.S.I.). The makeup of any new government and the chances for the emergence of the long-heralded "historic compromise" in which Communists would finally move out of opposition and into a ruling coalition depend on how well each party does in the voting for the 630 Chamber...
...COMMUNISM IN EUROPE. I wouldn't like to see the Communist Party in the government in Paris, or in Rome, or in other places. On the other hand, I do not believe that this must of necessity mean a catastrophe. We have seen Communists as ministers, and even in higher office, in Lisbon, and we have seen them in Reykjavik. Europe has not collapsed, nor has the Atlantic Alliance. I would not like us to predict disaster if it's possible that such predictions might in the end prove to be self-fulfilling prophecies...
...Communist ascendancy is not merely a product of Christian Democratic weakness. The PCI now participates in five regional governments and in the municipal governments of all the major cities north of Rome. There it has been able to provide effective and honest public administration, in sharp contrast to the DC's dismal record. More importantly, the PCI stands for an "Italian road to socialism" sharply distinct from the Soviet model...