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...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...
...rule and less of an exception, and extras were no longer confined to football results. President Eliot's retirement brought not only its best extra to date, but also its biggest scoop. Only the President, Managing Editor, Business Manager, and printers knew that the patriarch of the Augustan Age of Harvard was stepping down until the extra hit the streets. The paper also had the best word the next year on the progress of Eliot's internal struggle over whether to accept Taft's offer of appointment to the Court of St. James. Eliot stayed in Cambridge, and The Crimson...