Word: rome
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...poem's structural twists are made in their content rather than in their syntax: Wright moves much more quickly from localized scenes to global concepts in the prose poems than elsewhere. In "On Having My Pocket Picked In Rome," he writes...
Despite his language gap, Rabb is regarded by other Western diplomats in Rome as energetic and highly visible, if somewhat unversed in Italian politics and culture. Toon, however, may have a point about the standoffish Gavin, who keeps a low profile and is known for his hot tem per in dealing with staff and press. Refer ring to his country's best-known comedian, one Mexican official suggested...
...Rome's new assertiveness dates from the four-nation summit of NATO members called by former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in Guadeloupe in 1979 to address the West's defense problems. But Italy was not invited. That humiliation produced lingering resentment and a determination to shake off Italy's image as an inconsequential nation...
...five parties in Rome's center-left coalition government all support the Atlanticist foreign policy. So does the powerful Italian Communist Party (P.C.I.). Since the collapse of the "historic compromise," a power-sharing agreement with the ruling Christian Democrats, the Communists have sought to win votes by putting distance between themselves and the Soviet Union. Thus the P.C.I, has criticized the deployment of Soviet SS-20s and expressed only token opposition to the installation of U.S. missiles in Italy...
DIED. Mario Praz, 85, protean scholar who ranged expertly through English literature, philology, art and antiquarianism; in Rome. Praz, who taught for 32 years at the University of Rome, wrote the highly acclaimed The Romantic Agony, a study of sadism in literature...