Word: ciceroism
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...agreements" between political clubs, this is exactly what the Forum's constitution provides. Their opposition to the Forum has been conspicuous so far only for its malleability. Perhaps the group's members are interested in the aims of the new Forum. But its present spokesman, like Cicero--if in this respect alone--"will never follow anything that other men begin...
Actually, the pagan gods died, as gods, long before the collapse of the ancient world. Cicero's De Natura Deorum treats them as 1) historical personages. 2) cosmic symbols, and 3) allegories. Thus translated from the realm of blind faith to that of reason, they became deathless elements in the heritage of Western man. Yet in medieval times they led a shadowy life indeed. The church treated them as peasant superstitions (the Roman pagus was a country district), or turned them into demons. Satan, for example, inherited hooves and horns from the great god Pan. It remained...
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...have just read with some amusement the July 4 letter of that blithe spirit, Virgil C. Krebs, of Cicero, Ill. Mr. Krebs sought not only to castigate the Richmond News Leader but the South in general (a popular sport in some parts of this fair land). Can it be that Mr. Krebs of Cicero, Ill. is weak in his own local history? Can it be that Mr. Krebs is unaware that his home town, having been born in sin, nurtured in bathtub gin, brothels and girlie shows, is the same town which grew and prospered and ultimately became...
...Cicero...