Word: barbarians
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...greatest thinker of his day, and it is no fault of his that today his very name is synonymous with all that is black and treacherous. He was not a wicked man, unless patriotism is a sin. He was not a barbarian, but rather an historian, an ambassador and a dramatist. Indeed there were few cultural past-times in which he was not adept...
...filed against him and Doubleday, Doran & Co. in July by Max Annenberg, a $125,000-a-year circulation director of the nation's best-selling daily, the tabloid New York News. The blustering Max Annenberg charged that a Rascoe autobiography. Before I Forget, which called Annenberg "a burly barbarian, endeavoring with conspicuous success to live down his reputation as a roughneck," maliciously defamed "a forthright, honest and faithful citizen [Annenberg] . . . always reputed, esteemed and accepted by and among all his neighbors...
Windbag Demosthenes denounced this Philip with his mad scheme of a pan-Hellenic united front. ". . . Philip--a man who not only is no Greek, and no way akin to the Greeks, but is not even a barbarian from a respectable country--no, a pestilent fellow of Macedon, a country from which we never even get a decent slave..." In 338 B.C., however, at the battle of Chaeronea, Philip whipped the Athenians and gave them peace on astonishingly lenient terms. He became captain-general for the war against Persia...
...authorities are directing their attention to the college, always the "pet" of Yale men. The recent introduction of a general examination system, thoroughly familiar to Harvard cars, will undoubtedly invite bitter criticism and stinging comment from some graduates, whose attitude has always been, "woe unto the barbarian who lays violent hands upon our venerable college...
...Naples was ruled by Maria Carolina, daughter of Maria Theresa of Austria, sister of Marie Antoinette who had died on the guillotine only five years before. Carolina's husband, King Ferdinand, was a lazy, ineffectual, long-nosed barbarian whose concept of statesmanship was simply to keep out of trouble and throw coins to any crowd of the lower classes. Carolina's life was dominated by her hatred and fear of the French Republic, by her determination to lead Naples in a holy war against France. She was encouraged in this suicidal plan by the English, particularly by Lady...