Word: brutus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...majestic shadow of the Roman Forum . . . Brutus stabbed Julius Caesar . . . One hundred yards from the spot where Caesar fell, divorced Tyrone Power married a Hollywood starlet ... in the Church of Santa Francesca Romana" [TIME, Feb. 7]. Why drag Caesar into this Hollywood transaction? The Church of Santa Francesca Romana, built on the ancient Temple of Venus and Roma, stands at the east end of the Forum. Caesar fell in the theater of Pompey, which stood in the Campus Martius, well over a kilometer west...
Nothing like it had been seen in the majestic shadow of the Roman Forum since Brutus stabbed Julius Caesar on the Ides of March. One hundred yards from the spot where Caesar fell, divorced* Tyrone Power married a Hollywood starlet named Linda Christian in the Church of Santa Francesca Romana...
...boudoir painter, trained in the sentimental and erotic elegance that the court demanded. But young David was a difficult student; he simply could not learn to paint charmingly. At 27 he took off for Rome, looked at the statues and pictures, and came back a fighting antiquary. Brutus and the Horatii were his idols; he painted them to resemble the antique sculpture he admired, posturing naked and grand in a cool world. To complaints about la nudité de mes héros, David replied simply and smugly that they had always been represented that way in the Golden...
...University of California's Max Radin, 68, law teacher, Brandeisian philosopher and historian of the law, biographer of Marcus Brutus, indefatigable author of legal books and articles (a WPA project was once assigned to catalogue them all). A first-name friend of U.S. Supreme Court justices, Radin was nominated to the California Supreme Court in 1940, but the commission on judges turned him down (he had spoken out for Tom Mooney and Sacco & Vanzetti...
...Guilty? An investigator armed with all the inside information that Author Wilder makes available for him should have no difficulty in deciding who instigated the crime. In this account, Brutus is a minor character. Cassius does not even appear. If they did not know about Brutus, readers might well decide that the real villain must have been Clodia Pulcher, a likely suspect if there ever was one, dissolute, clever, and already mixed up in one attempt on Caesar's life...