Word: romes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eastern Orthodoxy. In Pope John's first public speech the day after his election, he went out of his way to beam benevolence toward the estimated 150 million communicants who are spiritual descendants of the church in Constantinople, which in the 4th century easily rivaled the authority of Rome and finally broke with the Roman Pope over a combination of political and doctrinal disagreements...
...adjectives to describe the tall (5 ft. 11 in.) doe-eyed beauty who speaks five languages, rides, sings, plays the guitar, walks regally erect and smiles like a queen. "A charming princess," raved the weekly Séttimo Giorno. "One of the loveliest girls of royal blood," mooned Rome's Il Messaggero. "Last summer at the pool at Gstaad, everyone agreed she had the most beautiful royal legs in Europe." Gushed a reporter: "With those eyes and that long chestnut hair, when you call 'Ella' the echo comes back 'bella...
...Kill Him! Kill Him!" Dressed in a blue denim prison jacket, Sosa Blanco grinned at the crowd. He raised his manacled hands, postured like the villain of a rigged wrestling match. The mob yelled, "Kill him! Kill him!" "This is the Colosseum in Rome," jeered Sosa Blanco, when he got a turn at the microphone. "I met brave rebels in the mountains, not types like you here. All you do is talk...
...piano manufacturer, Rolfe became a Roman Catholic convert at 26, studied for the priesthood but was expelled from his seminary in Rome. For the rest, he was a weirdly gifted writer, schoolmaster, painter, photographer, workhouse inmate, homosexual, paranoiac, and perhaps the most merciless autobiographer ever to snarl at his own image. In his famed, partly autobiographical novel, Hadrian the Seventh, Rolfe created a fantasy in which the College of Cardinals chooses as Pope an expelled English novice (like himself) who reforms the church and the world, and dies a martyr. In The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole, Rolfe told...
NEWS is also relative. The impact of one event is invariably shaped by the force of others. Thus, when the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S. elected a new presiding bishop last October, that election, while duly reported in TIME and elsewhere, was overshadowed by news from Rome: the death and burial of Pope Pius XII and the election of Pope John XXIII. Last week Presiding Bishop Arthur Carl Lichtenberger was formally installed in his new post, and news could catch up with him in greater detail. In this issue TIME introduces the grocer's son from Oshkosh...