Word: britannicus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britannicus Racine a dit, "Ma tragedie n'est pas moins la disgrace d'Agrippine que la mort de Britannicus." C'est aussi l'histoire de la naissance du monstre Neron dont on ne connait pas la nature quand le rideau se leve. Tandis que Neron decouvre son genie, la tragedie est rendue sensible par le conflit des gouverneurs, Burrhus, soldat honnete si maladroit, et Narcisse, anguille glissante...
...citizens are colored in one shade or another. Answering a question in Parliament recently, Minister of State for Colonial Affairs Henry Hopkinson declared: "In a world in which restrictions on personal movement and immigration have increased, we still take pride in the fact that a man can say civis Britannicus sum whatever his color may be, and we take pride in the fact that he wants and can come to the mother country . . . That is not something we wish to tamper with lightly." That said, Hopkinson admitted the government is indeed considering some form of limitation...