Word: cicero
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...political advantage-or disadvantage-punning has traditionally been more the farm of the artist than the playground of the politician. By punning, which probably derives from the Italian puntiglio (fine point), the writer grows ideas as well as wit. Aristophanes punned, with scatological exuberance, and so did Homer and Cicero. What was occasional in the classicists was fecund nature to Shakespeare. Because he had to play to the galleries, his plays were par for the coarse, brimming with such verbal pratfalls as "Discharge yourself of our company, Pistol." But Shakespeare could also buff the pun until it shone like...
...Last summer, while I was in Chicago, I talked with a black housepainter who had been in the march through Cicero in which King was hit by a brick. He told me about the firecrackers that sounded so much like gunshots and the rocks and the eggs and the fear. Then he said, "You know man, with all that shit flying around, I wondered what the devil I was doing out there. Then I looked at Martin, marching like he had everything under control, and I kept walking. There was no way you couldn't believe...
...anxious to fund lapsometer research in return for patent rights. Dr. More signs them over, and in no time at all the device is being used to foment further disorder. As a satire the book has something to offend just about everyone. Conservative Catholics, whose spiritual center is Cicero, Ill., celebrate Property Rights Sunday. Among the Reform Schismatics, several divorced priests are importuning the Dutch cardinal to allow them to remarry. Yet the book's purpose is clearly moral. Near the end Dr. More muses: "What I want is just to figure out what...
...perhaps radicals don't admit any humanist absolutes. Still, obstruction and violence are extreme forms of blustering. Cicero, you recall, advised speakers to bluster when they had no case and to speak dispassionately when the facts were with them. Thus it is a great political disappointment as well, that though the facts are with us, many radicals have really demonstrated that they have no faith in their own cause...
...delegate in Washington, coordinates all investments and economic projects. Archbishop Giuseppe Caprio manages the administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See, which, among other things, oversees the Vatican's payroll and supervises an investment staff of 15 lay and clerical experts. Bishop Paul Marcinkus, who is from Cicero, Ill., directs the Institute for Religious Works, which provides a full range of hanking services...