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...Augustus Caesar," so the poet said...
...Augustus Caesar long ago is dead...
...Cavafy possessed that power. With a pagan selection of detail-the gaze of an eye, the tilt of a head -he evokes the ardor of youthful flesh as tunelessly as does a frieze on a Grecian urn. Indeed, Cavafy introduces the shapers of the ancient world-the Ptolemies, Julius Caesar, Marc Antony-as if they were embarking on their adventures this very day. Simultaneously, he moves contemporary people backward into the total stillness of history so that they seem to have been formed in the ruins of Pompeii. Except for Yeats, no modern poet has surpassed Cavafy in this synoptic...
...Christian Democrats, including a stint for the past two years. Last week his leadership of the Christian Democrats, Italy's largest party, ended abruptly. At an emergency national council of the party, Fanfani, whose conglomeration of nicknames Includes "the Tuscan Pony," "the Pint-Sized Napoleon," "Little Caesar" and "il Padrino " (the godfather) was booted out on a vote of no confidence...
Married. Cher Bono, 29, TV singer (TIME, March 17); and Gregg Allman, 27, lead singer-organist with the Allman Brothers rock band; he for the third time, she for the second; three days after divorcing her former TV partner, Sonny Bono; in Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. Wearing an ice blue satin gown, teetotaler Cher downed a Coca-Cola toast to her new husband. The groom's down-home grandmother, Myrtle Allman, 74, sounded pleased-more or less. "I'm sure I'll love her," she said, then added that it would be nice...