Word: romes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toward the end Burke was spending much of his time grappling with Egyptian bureaucracy. Last week, when he got to Rome, he was able to file an uncensored cable covering the events of his final weeks in Egypt: "One morning early in July a tarbooshed plainclothesman appeared at TIME'S office. I was to report to the Cairo governate. There I was ushered in to see another plainclothesman in what I presumed was the security police office. I asked him who he was and why he had summoned me and he said, 'You have applied...
With liberation, Arsolians trustfully hoped for better times. Local Communist Boss Fabio Alimonti went to Rome. Dressed in his best shiny black suit, he faced Rome's prefect. Said he: "You take our water for your benefit and spill what you don't need. The people of Arsoli cannot be left to die. Find a pump to bring life back to our hills...
Water That Christ Sent. Arsolians put two & two together. Said they: "Rome's mayor is a Demo-Christian-naturally he won't listen to a Communist. What we must do is vote Demo-Christian. Will Christians deny us water that Christ sent to us in the first place...
...solve the urgent question of our water, please advance funds to build a road and employ our idle young men. We respectfully submit that these young men have nothing to put in their kitchen pots, and their parents are pained to see them grow up as wastrels." Back came Rome's answer: "Start work at once. The government will send money...
...Rome a fortnight ago, two music critics fought a duel over their critical opinions, left the field of honor only after one was pinked in the arm. Last week, a soprano at Milan's famed La Scala bopped a critic for having written that she was "suffering from a slight vocal eclipse" in a performance of Aïda. Next day, the Milan Journalists Association condemned opera singers who assault music critics, praised the "chivalrous" music critic for not hitting back...