Word: carthaginians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Abolition & Revolution. Barzun (TIME cover, June 11, 1956) ascribes this self-extinction to two influences that conflict with each other at the same time that they drive toward "the same Carthaginian end." The first is the group he labels the "Abolitionists," those creators of romantic art in literature, painting and music whose dream is to erase the great art of the past and to fill the void with a new consciousness: "So far, the sounds of electronic music are meaningless, like the drippings and droppings of the abstract expressionist and action painters, like the words and images that the beat...
...perfect natural prison, too small (three square miles) to permit unnoticed escape, too far from the nearest land (35 miles) to swim, Ustica is believed to have begun its penal history in the 7th century B.C., when mutinous Carthaginian soldiers were exiled there and starved until they ate each other. After the Carthaginians came Greek refugees and Phoenician exiles-and so on down the centuries. Mussolini banished thousands of political opponents to Ustica, often as many as 1,500 at a time; many were homosexuals who swished through the city streets in lipstick and silk pajamas, performed dances by night...
Equally incredible is a new NBC series called The Barbarians, about a Celtic prince named Ravic (Jack Palance) who lived 2,100 years ago, but was able to get around with modern speed: in the first one-hour episode alone he is captured by the Carthaginians, made a galley slave, sees his beloved sister commit suicide to avoid dishonor, leads a revolt, is recaptured and sentenced to be crucified, is saved by a voluptuous Carthaginian princess, escapes in a trireme, and becomes a pirate...