Word: tilling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Till my eyes bug out my head...
...well as most cardinals. At the Vatican, Correspondent Rospigliosi is Prince Rospigliosi, a title that dates back to the Holy Roman Empire. One of his ancestors was Pope Clement IX (1667-69). His grandfather, Camillo Rospigliosi. was a captain of the Pope's personal bodyguard from 1878 till 1915. Title and ancestry are useful in covering the Vatican, but Correspondent Rospigliosi can also count on his vast knowledge of Vatican lore and the confidences of well-placed sources acquired over the years since he first started covering the Holy...
...only ten vacancies in the College. Since three red hats are virtual musts at the next consistory-to Archbishops Griffin of Westminster, Koenig of Vienna and Montini of Milan-there would be only seven vacancies to fill many demands for new cardinals. Thus it would be wiser to wait till more openings occur. "There are several cardinals of advanced age," as one prelate put it delicately, "and despite the most charitable hopes, they cannot last much longer...
...kind of play. Laid in France in 1950, it is partly a mystery piece over who informed on a young Resistance fighter in World War II, partly a moral inquest into types of French behavior under the Nazis. The dead man's vengeance-crying mother will not rest till she has found his betrayer; simultaneously, the playwrights set up a kind of hearing-not just for outright heroes and traitors, but for one Frenchman with a certain tolerance of Germans during the war, for another with a certain tolerance of collaborationists after...
...their honeymoon in Mexico, Lennie happened to discover that Felicia did not know what a past participle was, and proceeded to give grammar lessons till she burst into tears. She admits that Lennie has been "hard to live with?but what man worth living with isn't? And every now and then he just makes you want to cry, 'Oh, thank you for loving me!'" Despite her porcelain fragility. Felicia soon instilled some fireside virtues in her man. They have two children? Jamie, 5, and Alexander Serge (named for Koussevitzky). 19 months?and live in a nine-room duplex just...