Word: florian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under a spring sun that warmed the air to 66° F, a crowd of perhaps 15,000 turned out last Wednesday. It was a typical gathering: a multinational, multiracial group of waterworks officials attending a convention in Rome; Poles from St. Florian parish in Cracow, where the former Karol Cardinal Wojtyla had once been an assistant parish priest; cycling clubs from northern Italy with their bicycles; parochial school children from the U.S. shepherded by nuns; the ubiquitous Japanese tourists, cameras ever at the ready. At exactly 5 p.m., Pope John Paul II entered the square through the Arch...
...unwilling to support his tasteless and racist criticism of Germany's filmmakers. Harkensson's film can foster prejudice against the Afro-American people but Counter's polemic references to Germany and its people will generate the same sort of prejudice that he is trying to prevent through his arguments. Florian W. J. Homm...