Word: rome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...northern neighbors. Last month some 20,000 women marched through downtown Rome, urging abortion on demand and chanting: "The womb is mine/ and I'll manage it fine!" A compromise bill is likely to be enacted, permitting abortion in the first 90 days of pregnancy if a doctor approves...
...nearly a week, mounds of garbage piled up in Rome, disfiguring historic piazzas and reeking in the narrow streets. A wildcat strike of street cleaners and truck drivers called by right-wing unions showed no sign of letting up. Meanwhile, urgent administration pleas to send the strikers back to work had-as usual-no effect...
...cleanup in Rome was only the latest example of the imposing organization and vaunted efficiency of the P.C.I. (Italian Communist Party). More important, it was another indication of the Communists' political savvy as they continue to move, under Party Secretary Enrico Berlinguer, slowly but relentlessly toward the heralded "historic compromise"-an alliance with the Christian Democrats that would bring them into a broad coalition government. "The people know that we are a force that acts and accomplishes," one Communist official boasted after the garbage pickup. "They know the situation in the country is only getting worse, that time...
...evidence that the saint is really in God's presence. In practice a candidate must also die a Catholic. When he visited Uganda in 1969, Pope Paul prayed at a sanctuary for Anglican martyrs at Namugongo, but that is as close as any Protestants have come to Rome's recognition...
Fleeing to Europe, Grimes meets a Faustian figure (but a Faust with charm) named Fabian, who knows every banker, concierge and con man from Rome to Gstaad. He teaches Grimes, the back slid Protestant moralist, how to increase and enjoy his money. But just as Graham Greene knew, Shaw is aware that the piper must always be paid, that his heroes must eventually return home to separate fates. Although they used to worship at entirely different literary shrines (Hemingway on the one hand, Evelyn Waugh on the other), Shaw and Greene are bonded in contemporary let ters by their ability...