Word: romes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same story all over Western Europe. For years the busiest black market in Rome was sunny Piazza Colonna, just 50 yards from the heavily guarded Chamber of Deputies. One young operator sadly admitted that in two months the dollar had dropped from 711 to 614 lire (legal rate: 570). "Spring always does this to us," he rationalized. "It can't last. People are just optimistic...
Mother of Decorum. On Good Friday, as if to reassert Christendom's spiritual claims to the city, a small procession of Christian pilgrims struggled through hail and harsh winds along the Via Dolorosa toward Calvary. In Rome, meanwhile, Pope Pius issued an encyclical appealing for Jerusalem's internationalization and demanding a guarantee of free access for Catholics to Jerusalem's holy places...
...field includes the main civilizations in world history, subdivided either by country or century. A History and Lit major can concentrate on America, England, France, Germany, Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece, the Renaissance, the Middle Ages, and the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries...
Onetime Aquastar Eleanor Holm, due home this week from globe-trotting with husband Billy Rose, wrote to a Manhattan columnist about the wonders of world travel. Burbled Eleanor: "Rome . . . is in a class by itself . . . You meet people you know at every restaurant. Last night it was Tennessee Williams and Truman Capote; as we came into the hotel, Gregory Ratoff, and a few minutes ago, Ingrid Bergman...
...conventional idea of all military command. This was not true of the play; it is not characteristic of all films. "Paisan," which showed just how good war movies could be, had a command decision too, in an episode involved with guerrilla warfare in the lonely river marshes north of Rome, but "Paisan's" decision involved active people, not figures on a chart. And the difference shows up in the relative emotional punch of the two pictures. "Command Decision" is no waste of time; it is often funny and occasionally penetrating. It is well above the usual wild-blue-yonder movie...