Word: cicero
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...John Lennon's semiliterate Joycean pastiches. Flabby punjabs pass for wit ("Are you bluish? You don't look bluish"), and the boys' voyage is filled with stilted symbolism. In one scene, the quartet passes by the Sea of Phrenology, where huge heads of Moses, Cicero, Freud and Einstein loom; John recalls that a fellow named Ulysses also went on a journey. Ultimately, however, what is wrong with the film is the Beatles. They are not in it. Except for the songs and a final sequence in which they appear live in some drab sing-along footage, they...
Invoking Luke, Plato, Cicero and other chroniclers of virtue, the Senate Select Committee on Standards and Conduct last week proposed "additions to the standing rules of the Senate." They amounted, in fact, to a bulky code of ethics intended to spare the Senate future embarrassments of the kind that have plagued it in the past, most notoriously those occasioned by the transgressions of Tom Dodd and Bobby Baker...
...didn't do any homework. They said I was a demoralizing influence. Christmas vacation I was supposed to memorize some Cicero. I didn't hand it in. The teacher gave me a couple of days. I still didn't do it. So he sent me to the principal. He talked to my teacher and found out I hadn't done the work in most of my courses. I had a couple of teachers who were pretty good. They let me do what I wanted. But that Latin teacher he wanted me to do the work as he told...
...letters to Cicero, Julius Caesar employed a cipher in which each character was replaced by one standing three places down the alphabet-thus D stood for a, E for b, F for c, etc. Mary Queen of Scots wrote conspiratory messages in cipher; when intercepted and interpreted by England's first great cryptanalyst, Thomas Phelippes, they helped bring Mary to the chopping block. In the U.S., Benedict Arnold employed several codes, including one that was keyed to Volume I of the fifth Oxford edition of Blackstone's Commentaries...
...time in a startlingly direct, meaningful and contemporary idiom--so did Juvenal. Speaking of the ambitious man: "Your long list/ of honors breaks your neck." Of the emperor Tiberius: "Would you be/Tiberius' right hand, while he sits and suns/ himself at Capri, fed by eastern fags?" Of Cicero: "Yes, all in all, I like such pompous verse/ more than you force, immortal fifth Phillipic!" The passage on Hannibal moves exceptionally well, and is an obvious illustration of the epic note that reverberates hollowly through Juvenal's revulsion...