Word: aurelius
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...Rodinesque impressionism of Medardo Rosso and the kineticism of the futurists. Marini loathed the machine at first. He took his subject from the horse and rider, an image common in the Italian cityscape, with Donatello's Gattamelata, Verrocchio's Colleoni and the ancient Roman statue of Marcus Aurelius placed on the Capitoline Hill by Michelangelo. Traditionally, the man on horseback is a symbol of authority, of exultant control, of human power over nature. Marini turned the image from initial triumph to ultimate tragedy...
...cast him in Lawrence, Omar has felt the pull of the West. He is now in Spain, ready to start work in Samuel Bronston's Fall of the Roman Empire. He plays an Armenian king who falls in love with Sophia Loren, beloved daughter of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. "It is not a very long part," says Omar grandly, "but it is pivotal. I believe that after having been known so long chiefly as the husband of my wife, I am now on the way to making her well known mainly as the wife of her husband...
Particularly so, fortunately, is Robert McEntire, the Tycoon. Mr. McEntire struts roguishly and confidently, smoothing his hands over his assumed paunch and twinkling devilishly at everybody as he enjoins them didactically to "Read Pepys' diary," "Read Marcus Aurelius," "Read Walt Whitman." So, too, the ever-capable Paul Barstow, now the Aristocrat, an ex-governor and F.O. man: he gestures with the monocle, is dismayed and contented both with proper peerish disdain...
...reunification of Germany through free elections, Khrushchev broke in to growl that his utmost concession on Germany would be to guarantee Berlin as a "free city" once the West withdrew its troops. Things were not helped even when Gronchi presented Khrushchev with a 16th century bust of Marcus Aurelius...
...just man and never wearied of saying "what a miracle [it was] that this son of a crowned ogre, brought up among animals, should have such a great love of French civilization." In long, nattering letters to the King, Voltaire compared Frederick to Marcus Aurelius, Horace, Hercules and Prometheus, among others; but he made savage fun of him behind his back. "As Court Jesters go, this one is expensive," said Frederick coldly. So Voltaire returned to Emilie-only to tell her that "he was now too old (forty-six) to make love...