Word: rome
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...writing a play about Cicero and ancient Rome. You want to make it historically accurate, but you hardly know where to begin. What did the Romans write on? Paper? Papyrus? Scrolls? Did they shake hands? How easy was it to get divorced...
...Cicero which opens tonight in the Samuel Beckett Theater in New York City is historically accurate, in large part it will be due to Bailey's efforts. As an official consultant for the play, he has given those involved advice on exactly how to make the play true to Rome in the first century...
Segal says that if Cicero is a success, he has discussed with Bailey the possibility of working on even bigger projects, including a television miniseries about Cicero and ancient Rome. Cicero, who always wanted to make a name for himself, would never have expected to go from ancient Rome to off-off Broadway to the television screen...
Would that Klass had lavished a little more artistic pretension on her fiction. Written at different times while Klass was a graduate student in zoology, doing field work in Central America, living in Rome and attending medical school, these stories document in theme--rather than form--a disenchantment with sameness. The thematic concerns are all the same. The stories all speak of restless students who are usually also relentless travelers. You get the feeling there are only a few real characters, chopped up and shooed into all the stories...
...results of an unusual investigation of all U.S. seminaries, ordered by John Paul, as harsh as some had feared. A Vatican report on 38 of the schools, out this week, declares them "generally satisfactory," though Rome is prodding a few seminaries (no names mentioned) to "resecure" loyalty to church teachings in moral theology...