Word: bentley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dodged and bribed his way out of Italy, and even after his friend's had won for him Sulla's contemptuous pardon he was wise enough not to return till after Sulla's death. While Caesar was cultivating the arts of a courtier in Asia (Author Bentley has him companioning a pervert out of policy, implies he was not really that way himself), his rival Pompey was winning victories all over the place and becoming the darling of Rome...
FREEDOM, FAREWELL!-Phyllis Bentley -Macmillan...
With the same workmanlike technique she used in her novels of Yorkshire mill-towns, Phyllis Bentley last week turned back 2,000 years, retold the old story of Julius Caesar, his rise and fall. Though her version lacked the imaginative freshness of such historical novels as Robert Graves's on the Emperor Claudius or Lion Feuchtwanger's on Josephus, and neither added to nor subtracted from history's blackboard, it furnished modern readers with a stirring, up-to-date account of one of Rome's greatest true stories. Author Bentley also hoped that her factual record...
...Author Bentley, without disallowing history's whispers that Caesar was a rake, minimizes the details. Readers who expect a luscious Egyptian interlude with Cleopatra do not know their Bentley. Cleopatra makes only one appearance-fully clothed and middleaged. Caesar's most constant mistress was Servilia, Brutus' mother, and of her Author Bentley contrives to make a somehow noble Roman matron, though she was twice married and continually unfaithful to both husbands. The other chief figures in the story appear as conventional history reports them: Pompey, a handsome, courageous, slow-minded soldier; Cicero a henpecked, opportunistic politician with...
...Elliot Perkins, Dr. Benjamin Rowland, Jr., Dr. David Worcester, and Messrs. Donald B. Armstrong, Jr. 37, Frank C. Bosler '38, Thomas A. Buffum '37, Richard M. Ballou '36, Robert L. Bentley, Jr. '36, David C. Crawford '36, Richard J. Currie '36, S. Page Cotton '38, M. Hollingsworth Cornell '37, John L. Dampeer '38, Thomas H. Dowd, Jr. '36, Nicholas Friedman '37, William T. Glendinning '38, Wesley L. Furste '37, James E. King, Jr. '36, Ellis W. Jones, Jr. '37, John D. Ogilby '38, Frederick R. Pleasants 3G., Murray Richards uL., Ethan A. H. Sims '38, Peter L. Scott '38, John...