Word: rome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years old--an exchange student on an archeological dig in Italy, 20 miles north of Rome. The previous summer I had sat like millions of others in a living room in the middle of suburbia and watched, like a soap opera addict, as one top Nixon aide after another came before the Senate Watergate committee to hint at the various venal sins committed by the administration still in power. Like so many others, I drew the routine conclusion that Nixon was a paranoid scum, and wondered how much longer he would cling to the Oval Office. It took them...
Then it was on to Rome to negotiate a loan of $530 million to the Italian government, which was on the verge of being overthrown because of chaotic inflation and an inability to finance oil imports. "What would have happened without the Fund," says one international banker, "is too ghastly to contemplate...
After his conversion to Catholicism at the age of 25, Rolfe nourished a grand obsession: to become a Roman Catholic priest. But he was expelled from two seminaries, one in Britain, one in Rome, where he continued to paint and photograph, cavalierly charging materials to the bishops who sponsored him. His superiors may have detected an even more distressing strain. Rolfe was in the habit of employing pen, camera and oils to attract young men. The results could be artful sublimations-poems or paintings exalting saintly martyrs. But when he was candid, as in his "Ballade of Boys Bathing" ("Wondrous...
Such ambitions presupposed a very grand rhetoric, which Rubens based squarely on his study of classical art. As a young man in Rome, he made a sketch of every antique marble he could lay eyes on. His vast correspondence shows that he had read and memorized work by almost every known Latin writer, from Cicero to Plautus. He recommended "a complete absorption in statues," but "one must avoid the effect of stone." Rubens' large altarpiece, still in Antwerp Cathedral, of the Descent from the Cross, 1611-14, demonstrates exactly what he meant. The figure of Christ, the pale, dead...
Still, there is one thing Cambridge lacks. "I used to live in Rome, and we drank mineral water all the time," Gowing said. "You can't get it here, so I drink this stuff, he said, flourishing a flask of Perrier water. "I have to pay a dollar for it at Cardullo's--that's way too expensive...