Word: rome
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tension and concern surrounding the pilgrimage of Pope John Paul II to his native Poland built before his arrival in Warsaw last week, TIME correspondents were reporting on the activities of both the visitor and the visited. In Rome, Bonn Bureau Chief Roland Flamini, who as a Rome correspondent covered John Paul's 1978 election, followed the Pontiff's preflight preparations, then accompanied him on the trip to Poland. Paris Correspondent Thomas A. Sancton, a former associate editor who wrote many of TIME's stories about Solidarity, including the 1981 Man of the Year cover on Lech...
...Britain during the Falklands war would want to try his brand of diplomacy in Poland. After five years in the Vatican-and 17 foreign pilgrimages-John Paul's longing for his homeland has, if anything, only deepened. When reporters accompanying him on the Alitalia 727 jet from Rome last week asked him what he felt like now that he was going home, John Paul responded with a single English word: "Myself...
...journey across Poland, John Paul was trying to measure the great historical and psychological divide that separates this pilgrimage from his triumphal return in June 1979. His first homecoming had been spontaneously jubilant, as Poles in the millions turned out to greet a favorite son who had left for Rome eight months before as a Cardinal and come back as the first Polish Pope in history. The experience of standing shoulder to shoulder in quiet defiance of the country's Communist rulers had helped prepare the way for Solidarity's rise...
...folk songs. Entire families huddled in the windows of nearby buildings that were decorated with white-and-red Polish flags, yellow-and-white papal pennants and portraits of the Pope and the Black Madonna. As John Paul rode past in the white Popemobile that had been brought from Rome, a wave of emotion surged through the crowd. Some Poles openly wept. Others thrust their fingers defiantly into the air in a V sign and chanted "Solidarnosc"and "Walesa...
...When I went to Rome I became so fascinated with bronze that I stuck with it," he says. "Now that I look back, I think I should have gone up to Carrara and spent more time getting to know stone." A summer at the international sculpture symposium in the basalt quarries of Eugene, Oregon gave him his first opportunity...