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Word: britannicus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maybe I could get this review started by recalling that at 17 I tried an adaptation-in blank verse-of Racine's Britannicus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiddling in Old Rome | 4/3/1972 | See Source »

...Forget Britannicus. TIME rarely uses the first person singular, even in bylined reviews. Better stick to Hersey, Nero and power. The deadline is next Tuesday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiddling in Old Rome | 4/3/1972 | See Source »

...stack of inconvenience. Get off and walk." One of the few signs of support came from unionized workers at London's Evening Standard who walked out and halted late editions in protest against a drawing they considered objectionable. The cartoon pictured the E.T.U. worker as "Homo-electrical-sapiens Britannicus, circa 1970"−with head of "solid bone," eyes "green with envy," ears "deaf to reason," mouth "permanently open," hand "always out," and only a hole where his heart should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Dark Days in Great Britian | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

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