Word: rome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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News of bribery causes no surprise here in Brazil, where "special payment arrangements" are routine in all deals with government departments. In Rome, you must do as the Romans. Your multinationals are right...
...Association (IATA) agreed on a 6% fare increase on North Atlantic routes that will go into effect May 1. The new rate will boost the standard economy fare by $42, to $806, for a London-New York round trip and from $968 to $1,010 for a New York-Rome return economy ticket. Hikes in excursion fares used most frequently by tourists were somewhat smaller. A summer "peak season" 22-to 45-day New York-London return ticket will rise $34, to $527, and the prepaid tariff for tickets ordered two months in advance will increase...
...Church (not Rome, but H-E) rounds out the weekend with a far less perfect, but still fascinating movie, Hallelujah, I'm a Bum! If you're interested in the Depression film, hit this. And if you're interested in Harry Langdon, hit this. And if you're interested in the musical comedy form, likewise. Rodgers and Hart did the music and lyrics, and the whole picture is done in talking rhyme, which you will either find maddening or charming. Wonderful montage touches from a usually staid director, Lewis Milestone. It's all right to confuse this with Hallelujah, because...
...April 1939, Pound set off on a "mercy mission" to the U.S. to bring "Franklin Finkelstein Roosevelt" to his senses. When the President refused to see him, he returned to Italy in disgust and began to air his half-baked ideas and bigotry over Radio Rome. Between January 1941 and September 1943, he made 125 broadcasts...
Vidal also maintains a spacious apartment in Rome but spends less and less time there. He is friendly with journalists and occasionally sees such fellow novelists as Anthony Burgess and Muriel Spark. Curiously for the author of Julian and a man who considers Christianity "the single greatest disaster that has ever happened to the West," Vidal seems to delight in the company of clerics. One of the people he dines with in Rome is American Jesuit John Navone, a theologian at the Pontifical Gregorian University. When Navone once brought a group of visiting Jesuits to Vidal's apartment, Vidal...