Word: bulwer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tomb had more gold and better works of art, but it gives little impression of how Egyptians below Tutankhamun's level lived. Pompeii has everything, even some mild and (by modern standards) charmingly humane pornography. Thus it has been big cultural box office ever since 1834, when Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii created the catastrophe novel as a form of entertainment. ("Alas! Alas!" murmured Ione, "I can go no farther; my steps sink among the scorching cinders. Fly, dearest!-beloved, fly! and leave me to my fate...
When Edward Bulwer-Lytton wrote that "the pen is mightier than the sword," it's unlikely that he had the fate of the Harvard fencing team in mind. But nevertheless, the Penn that Harvard came up against last weekend was far mightier than any sword the Crimson could raise in resistance and handed Harvard its fourth straight Ivy loss, 15-12, Saturday in Philadelphia...