Word: augustan
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Southerners quite possibly devote more time to the preparation and consumption of breakfast, lunch and dinner than any other society since Augustan Rome. Drawing from the world's most abundant living larder, from the fish and flesh, fruit, root and leaf on their doorsteps and jetties, they have codified a cuisine that, for variety and piquancy, ranks with anything served in Florence or Provence. Southern cooking is essentially regional, indigenous and inventive, a long frypan throw from the elegantly stylized haute cuisine of Paris or Rome. To the educated palate a Southern meal, at its diverse best, is worth...
...height of its conquests in the 8th century A.D., the empire of Islam stretched from the Atlantic beaches of Portugal to the western fringe of China. It encompassed half the known world. This Moslem superstate was the largest religious and political bloc mankind had seen since the Augustan empire, and it had all been consolidated in a little more than 100 years after the death of the prophet Mohammed...
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...democracy all contributed to the "linguistic pollution" characteristic of our times. Watergate's value lies in its forcing the American people to look back at our past, when the Founding Fathers had a "profound conviction of historical responsibility" and wrote with a "lucid, measured and felicitous prose, marked by Augustan Virtues of harmony, balance and elegance...
...tell me I am grown old and peevish and supercilious-name the geniuses of 1774, and I submit it. The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will perhaps be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and in time a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru...