Word: rome
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Europe: Christopher Redman London: Christopher Ogden, Roland Flamini Paris: Jordan Bonfante, B.J. Phillips, Adam Zagorin Bonn: William McWhirter, John Kohan Rome: Sam Allis, Cathy Booth Eastern Europe: Kenneth W. Banta Moscow: James O. Jackson, Ann Blackman Jerusalem: Johanna McGeary Cairo: Dean Fischer, David S. Jackson Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Ross H. Munro Bangkok: Dean Brelis Peking: Richard Hornik Hong Kong: William Stewart, Jay Branegan, Bing W. Wong Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Yukinori Ishikawa Ottawa: Peter Stoler Mexico City: John Borrell, Laura Lopez, John Moody Rio de Janeiro: Gavin Scott
...Madeleine in Paris by two decades. In a way, its radicality has been veiled by its success. Before long, America would be full of town halls, capitols and churches that looked like Roman temples, just as its map would be dotted with names from Greco-Roman antiquity: Ithaca, Rome, Athens, Sparta, Troy. But the Virginia state capitol was quite new and at the same time old; the strength of its political symbolism was meant to lie in its appeal to a precolonial past, that of the fresh Roman Republic, untainted as yet by Caesarism. Its model, said Jefferson...
...this praise was as excessive as Lord Byron's dismissal of him: "the flattering, feeble dotard, West,/ Europe's worst dauber, and poor Britain's best . . ." He knew how to cater to Europeans' expectation that he, as an American, would be a cultural Natty Bumppo; when he went to Rome as a young man and was shown the Apollo Belvedere, the first nude sculpture he had ever seen, he endeared himself to connoisseurs by exclaiming, "My God, how like it is to a young Mohawk warrior!" Thus the white noble savage met the antique ideal, and West's name...
Europe: Christopher Redman London: Christopher Ogden, Roland Flamini Paris: Jordan Bonfante, B. J. Phillips, Adam Zagorin Bonn: William McWhirter, John Kohan Rome: Sam Allis, Cathy Booth Eastern Europe: Kenneth W. Banta Moscow: James O. Jackson, Ann Blackman Jerusalem: Johanna McGeary Cairo: Dean Fischer, David S. Jackson Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Ross H. Munro Bangkok: Dean Brelis Peking: Richard Hornik Hong Kong: William Stewart, Bing W. Wong Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Yukinori Ishikawa Ottawa: Peter Stoler Mexico City: John Borrell, Laura Lopez, John Moody Rio de Janeiro: Gavin Scott
...almost all been futile; the former United Nations Secretary-General is even formally banned, as an undesirable alien, from entering the U.S. But last week the prisoner of Vienna finally got a break with the announcement that he would pay an official visit to Pope John Paul II in Rome this week...