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Archeologists fought the idea. Using ancient and often inaccurate maps, they protested that the new tunnel would smash through the unexplored remains of the palace of Marcus Aurelius' wife Faustina. It might even barge into the buried red-light district of the 2nd and 3rd Centuries, A.D. Cried scholarly Dr. Roberto Lanzara: "Builders will strike something of great archeological and historical interest every 100 yards." But the engineers...
...night after the election, until the small hours of the morning, Rome's people crowded around the column of Marcus Aurelius in the Piazza Colonna. laughing and slapping each other's backs. "Let's go home!" cried one woman. "The danger is over." While Romans celebrated democracy's victory, swarms of the city's ragged children roamed the streets, tearing down election posters in order to sell them as scrap for a few lire. It was a sharp reminder that the danger was far from over. The victors still had a price...
Whether she realizes it or not, I am of the decided opinion that Oscar-Winner Olivia de Havilland made her discovery that "It's the adjectives that count" [TIME, March 31] not from "reading a lot of books between scripts," but from her husband, Marcus Aurelius Goodrich, author of the novel Delilah...
...chapter, consisting of imaginary interviews with Plato, Marcus Aurelius, St. Paul, Spinoza and Schopenhauer, shows Professor Edman as an eclectic honeybee of philosophy, his nectar sacs full, his buzzing melodious and sunny. His conclusion: ". . . Though the order is not found, the inquiry proves, itself, a goal...
...butler wept. Sebastian sighed: "Now I won't get my evening clothes." "Was it Marcus Aurelius or Julius Caesar . . . who passed on in the W.C.?" inquired Mrs. Gamble. She arranged a seance at once...