Paul's own up-to-dateness was not in question for a moment with the crowd of 30,000 who assembled in the cathedral (and wine) town of Orvieto, 75 miles north of Rome.
In their variously fashionable ways, all have been trapped within "the bubble of compulsive up-to-dateness.
This up-to-dateness is itself a kind of spring-wound relic: the breezy, bet-on-the-future confidence of a Midwestern traveling salesman from a half-century ago.
Gianfranco Fini in AGI - Agenzia Giornalistica Italia The fact that none of the reforms in the past decades have substantially changed the first part on the basic principles is strong evidence of the up-to-dateness of the Constitutionsaid Fini, "the reforms have always regarded the second...