Word: rome
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...herbal tea. The Vice-President is wearing a Buddhist monk's attire and carrying a money-filled pauper's pot because, surprise, he solicited thousands of dollars at a Buddhist temple in California. The Clintons are wearing Chinese clothes because, when you go begging someone for money in Rome, you do as the Romans...
Freedberg's love and care for Renaissance art pre-dated his years of teaching at Harvard. While serving in the U.S. Army during the Second World War, Freedberg refused to cooperate in gathering information on Rome out of fear that the data would be used in military operations against the city and lead to the destruction of its art treasures...
...consequences of such liberalization have not pleased the Vatican. In 1993 Archbishop Vincenzo Fagiolo called the American annulment figures "a grave scandal." Robert Vasoli, author of the forthcoming book Tearing Asunder: Annulment American Style, says that on this issue, "the church in the U.S. is practically in schism with Rome." An overstatement, perhaps, but in 1994 Pope John Paul II warned the Roman Rota, the Vatican court to which Rauch Kennedy has appealed, against a "mistaken idea of compassion and mercy" that might cloud true justice...
...Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature R.J. Tarrant, commenting on Lowell Lecture Hall after delivering in Latin Cicero's famous speech from 63 B.C.E. denouncing Catiline for plotting against the government in Literature and Arts C-61: "The Rome of Augustus...
...While we have fiddled, Rome has burned," Burke said...