Word: carthaginians
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...Much archaeological work is done not by digging, but by patiently assembling data in a quiet study. Twenty-five years ago, Sir Gavin de Beer, now director of London's British Museum of Natural History, set himself the task of finding out how the army of Hannibal the Carthaginian crossed the Alps to invade Italy...
...with a mission went to work. To his conviction that a peace should be signed, and that it should be a Christian peace, he added a number of fortifying practical factors: a Carthaginian peace would breed misery and poverty, which in turn would breed Communism. If Japan should fall that way, the result would be disastrous for the West. Japan's industrial potential, integrated with the resources of Manchuria, might be enough to enable the Communists to sustain a long world war, even...
...Spain, the story pf his forefathers dates back over 2,000 years, to the days following the Carthaginian invasion of the Iberian peninsula. Through the successive invasions of the Romans, Goths, Arabs and Berbers, they survived and grew in number. Under Moslem rule, the Spanish Jews produced an elite of brilliant poets and philosophers, and of wealthy bankers. But in the 14th Century, after most of Spain had been freed from Moslem rule by Spanish Christians, the Jews became a persecuted people...
...your readers opposes U.S. Army recruiting of volunteers in Europe, compares these volunteers to Persian slaves, Carthaginian back-stabbing hirelings and mercenaries, and concludes: "When we are reduced to having others fight for our freedom, we shall not deserve to have any" [TIME...
Fledgling Literary Critic William Barrett wondered whether his brethren had not been too quick to assume that the U.S. would eventually grow up and produce a culture of its own. Barrett recalled what a French monk in Carthage had told him when he looked in vain for relics of Carthaginian art: "They had none. They were not artists. They were business people . . . the Americans of antiquity...