Word: carthaginians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stab in the Back. The Allies, Watt suggests, might have been able to prevent this vicious right-left polarization of Germany. Instead, by imposing a Carthaginian peace, they undercut the moderates and strengthened extremists. The Versailles Treaty ceded parts of German territory to other nations and burdened Germany with staggering reparations. Though the moderate Socialist government had no choice but to sign the treaty on Germany's behalf, it afterward came under incessant attack from the right for that "stab in the back"-the allegedly ignominious capitulation to the enemy. The Weimar Republic was already fatally weakened from...
...centuries, the Great St. Bernard Pass was the most popular gateway through the Alpine rampart separating southern and northern Europe. Up its tortuous trails from the Rhone valley climbed tumultuous hordes of Gauls and Germans to sweep down on Italy. And this way, says legend, came Carthaginian Hannibal and his elephants. Climbing the other way, from the beautiful Val d'Aosta, came Caesar's Roman legions intent on conquering tripartite Gaul and planting the legionary eagles on the banks of the Rhine. Nineteen hundred years later, after crushing the Austrians at Marengo, Napoleon and his grenadiers retraced Caesar...
...look he gives the camera might just possibly fail to affect the personnel manager of a Carthaginian salt mine. It will certainly make every warmhearted moviegoer care and care deeply what happens to Domenico-and to many more than Domenico. For in this remarkable first film, the work of a 32-year-old Italian named Ermanno Olmi, Domenico is the surrogate of every mother's son who ever sold his labor for a sad little living. With quiet poignance, with gay and gentle humor, with gradual but ultimately pulverizing irony, the director investigates the well-known social process that...
...strange way. Her latest book covers some 40 years of the Punic wars. Characteristically, her two major characters never take part in, or talk about, any of the major battles. They are not attached to either army. For that matter, they are not even Roman or Carthaginian, but a pair of grubby Greek traders...
Silver Shekel. Zonas does meet Hannibal, during a Carthaginian parade through a hill town. Rushing out to save his strayed donkey from being trampled by an elephant, he is rewarded with a silver shekel from the African general instead of the swift death he expected. But the coin does not lead him to great adventure. Zonas lives too prudently close to the ground for that...