Word: romes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elected. Charles Adams Platt, famed Manhattan architect; to be President of the American Academy at Rome, succeeding the late William Rutherford Mead, last survivor of the original McKim, Mead & White...
When the organ sounds its joyous diapason, Cardinal O'Connell will listen with the ears of a notable composer. In a basement he found the oldest Christian church in Rome. In another basement likewise, when he was a student at St. Charles College, Maryland, he found a broken-down melodeon. Some of the pipes would sound, however, and he sat there playing, lost to everything else, including his classes...
Alceo Dossena lives in Rome, where for years he has sculped in Classical and Renaissance styles. With the secrecy of an alchemist he produces the effect of century-long erosions on his statuary. Alceo insists that he is only a copyist. But he has a Greek Athena in the Cleveland Museum, a Renaissance tomb in the Boston Museum, a chastely draped Grecian maiden in the Metropolitan. The guardians of all these palladiums have been duped. Now they are chagrined...
...dinner will be held in honor of Professor Carlo Formicht, of the University of Rome, who was recently a visiting lecturer at the University of California and is now on his way back to Italy. After the dinner, the Circolo will hold its first meeting of the year, at which plans for the ensuing season will be discussed...
...their spirit or destructively toward decay and dissolution. Thus Western civilization, with its vaulting expression in Gothic cathedrals, Beethoven, da Vinci, Einstein, Manhattan's sun-smitten towers, is either seething onward toward mightier transactions, more luminous cultural & scientific manifestations, or suffering the nervous, senile disintegration which desolated Rome, Egypt, ancient China...