Word: barbarian
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...thunder and fond of virgins, but his most publicized characteristic was opposition to ostentation. He lived, according to the historian Suetonius, in a modest house on Rome's Palatine Hill. But his successor, Tiberius, crowned the hill with an elaborate palace, and when the Roman Empire fell, barbarian kings. Popes and nobles made their homes on the Palatine...
...life he has cherished a private spirit called "Loplop, Bird Supe rior.'' and this is typical of the man who has never wholly deserted childhood. If he has his nightmares, they are quickly over, for his very next painting will brim with laughter. Even his barbarian hordes seem a trifle whimsical, as if they were spooks that a child might see in the shad ows. Just as the image refuses to be itself, so the emotion refuses to stay still -and that is the effect Ernst is after. "Birds become men," he once explained, "and men become birds...
Bell it was who pointed out that only the civilised artificiality distinguished him the barbarian. To the Blooms which he lived (and which Lawrence so much destested) thesis was an especially one; certainly it attracted respect than it does now. "," I would guess, is a dead it connotes the precious, the and the dilletantish. But it is with us, perhaps a little...
...Lisbon, the Salazar government spluttered denunciations of the "wicked act committed by this gang of pirates," and likened it to "the barbarian practices that made the Caribbean Sea an area of dishonor, which took centuries to clean up." Panic-stricken that a similar fate might be in store for the Santa Maria's sister ship, the Vera Cruz, which was en route to Brazil, Lisbon rushed ten secret servicemen by plane to Rio de Janeiro with orders to allow no visitors aboard when the Vera Cruz docked. The Portuguese government appealed to the U.S. and Britain to recapture...
...barbarian is not necessarily known by his bearskin, his ax or his H-bomb nor does he always pound on his desk in a parliament of nations. He may be as urbane as the 18th century philosophers who prepared the way for the guillotine and the tumbrels. Or, in one man's words: He may wear a Brooks Brothers suit and carry a ballpoint pen ... In fact, even beneath the academic gown there may lurk a child of the wilderness, untutored in the high tradition of civility, who goes busily and happily about his work a domesticated...