Word: barbarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fostering of understanding of "the ethical principles which ought to regulate human begins" is necessary if we are to avoid destruction by men "who are essentially barbarian, despite impressive technical proficiency," Kirk continues...
...Barbarian; As heir presumptive to this royal ring-a-rosy, Prince Paul as a young man showed an understandable lack of interest in kingship. Chafing under the dominance of his stingy elder brother George II, the easygoing Crown Prince spent most of his time away from Greece, aimlessly drifting from the home of one royal relative to that of another or sporting with the fast-living "Alfa Romeo set" in Italy. Once, as a lark, he slipped back into republican Greece wearing a thick black beard and posing as a deckhand on a friend's yacht. By the time...
Frederika herself was instantly at home in her new surroundings. "I was born, a barbarian," she has often said-to the infinite delight of her Greek subjects, "and I came to Greece to get civilized." The heady atmosphere of a nation where politics is a national sport was as much to Frederika's taste as the national wine Retsina, which smacks of turpentine to most foreigners. The new princess lost no time in establishing the dynasty which would make her stay in this delightful place secure. Her first child, a daughter, was born just ten months after the marriage...
...model case is the rise of the National Socialist movement to power with the Gnostic chorus wailing its moral indignation at such barbarian and reactionary doings in a progressive world-without, however, raising a finger to repress the rising force by a minor political effort in proper time...
...would have nothing at all for roads and public works, instead of very little. Felix never actually built a road during his ten years in Britain, but he liked to think he meant to. With the confiscation, more & more of the farmers fled to the camps of the barbarian kings, and lately there were just not enough taxpayers to support the administration and the garrison. Still, it was possible to milk the rich merchants and keep things going, always exempting one's friends and relations, of course-notably the Senator Gratianus, whose pretty daughter, Maria, Felix had thought...