Word: rome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...failure of nerve" and "sense of collective impotence" that contributed to Rome's downfall may now be afflicting American society, a Yale classical historian said yesterday...
Pelikan presented similar views and made comparisons between declining Rome and modern American at a conference in Washington Wednesday commemorating the upcoming bicentennial of historian Edward Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire...
BARBARA KOLB, 36, composer in residence at the American Academy in Rome, will return to New York next month for the premiere of Soundings, a richly textured romantic piece that blends overlapping layers of sounds. That same evening the work will also be performed in Rome by the Rome Radio Orchestra. Kolb, who grew up in Connecticut, spent six years in the clarinet section of the Hartford Symphony. It has never occurred to her that composing might be considered an exclusively male occupation. If anything, says Kolb, "composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative...
...Wearing a black vest and a dark, flower-adorned sombrero, Dylan acknowledged the crowd's standing ovation with a small wave. He lit into "When I Paint My Masterpiece," an ironic song, loosely based on the scene in Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night where Dick Diver wanders around Rome and decides he will never be a great writer...
...this then the Vatican view? Father Trapasso's diocesan authorities insisted that both comments were merely private opinions, an accurate statement since only unsigned editorials in L'Osservatore are used to reflect papal thinking. In Rome, one theology professor fumed, "Concetti is no moral theologian, and what he wrote is stupid." Said Father Sean O'Riordan, a moral theologian at Rome's Alphonsianum College: "Concetti's article is clearly contrary to the teachings of Pope Pius XII and the unanimous moral tradition existing for centuries...