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Amfitheatrof had just returned to Rome from the earthquake-shattered villages of southern Italy when he was called to help Kalb in Poland. With a Polish visa, prudently obtained back in August, he was able to fly directly to Warsaw and spend part of a day with Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa at church and at Walesa's home outside Gdansk. "The Poles are marvelously brave and calm," observes Amfitheatrof, who along with Kalb witnessed last week's emotional unveiling of the workers' monument in Gdansk. "Whatever the future holds for them has enormous implications for Eastern Europe...
...verse by women. Sadly, Sappho's fears of oblivion have proved valid. For each poet represented in this anthology there are uncounted others whose work has been diminished, dispersed or utterly lost. In A.D. 1073, virtually all existing copies of Sappho's work were burned in Rome and Constantinople, because the church perceived her lesbian love lyrics as a threat to Christian morality. In 12th century China the parents of Chu Shu-chen incinerated the body of the poet's work after her death, for reasons unknown. A few poems rescued by Chu's friends...
...greater losses than these occurred through indifference and neglect. In ancient Rome, which abounded in male poets from Livius to Virgil, an entire poetic culture was wiped out because the writings of women were not esteemed enough to be copied and preserved. The lone female survivor of the Latin classical period is Sulpicia (1st century B.C.) whose known corpus consists of six poems...
...went throughout the quake zone last week, as Italy began the awesome, chaotic process of digging out. Few among the living wanted to leave the sites of death and destruction. Barely 1,000 people took advantage of Plan S. Many preferred to join relatives abroad-they flew out of Rome and Naples at a rate of 200 a day-but the vast majority simply stayed put. Deeply suspicious of the central government, they clung to the shattered remnants of their old lives, enduring privation, disease and wet, bitter weather that turned their devastated villages into muddy swamps. "What the people...
...corporate comptroller knows, it has long cost American companies a lot to station executives in the biggest European cities, like Paris, London and Rome. Now it appears that the living expenses that U.S. firms must foot are substantially higher than Yankee levels in all of the major business centers, including Lisbon, the cheapest European capital...