Word: cicero
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...only say that it will be a black day for these United States should they fall behind the other nations of the civilized world in the production of rockbound, palm-fringed, seagirt cliches. I point with pride to Governor Clement, whose speech was worthy of Cicero-Cicero...
...Kinescope film to test his delivery, buffed and polished each polysyllabic pearl of syntax and rhetoric before his pretty blonde wife. This week he was ready with a keynote speech that was charged with a rare potential of metaphor, simile and alliteration, borrowed liberally from orators ranging from Cicero to Daniel Webster to Billy Graham...
...Calcutta-born Englishman who became the most learned teacher of Greek and Latin in his time. For a quarter of a century he headed the Perse School in Cambridge, where he made certain that each boy left with a conversational competence in the languages of Homer and Cicero. When he died in 1950 at 86, he left behind him first-rate, down-to-earth translations of The Odyssey and The Iliad that virtually returned Homer's classics to the common man. Total sales in the U.S. alone: 1,000,000 copies...
James Mason's treatment of Cicero, the spy, is hardly "noble, eloquent, and dissatisfied" as he remembers the Roman orator whom he wishes to emulate. Unfortunately his own way of subduing unleashed ambition is uncertain, and while his eloquence nevers falters, his nobility wavers too much for him to be a spy in the grand manner. The spy, he observes, "must have disgust for poverty, and faith in the future of money." Though continually dedicated to becoming affluent, he sometimes seems unsure of how to do it. This ambiguity makes him dubious as a character who claims...
Three second prizes of $25 each went to Richard H.R. Smithies '57, who recited "Soliloquy in a Spanish Cloister" and "My Last Dutchess" by Robert Browning; Ralph B. Perry III '58, who presented Cicero's First Oration Against Cataline; and Donald G. Richards '56, who read "The Tombs of Westminster Abbey...