Word: ciceroism
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...Moby Dick to The Magic Mountain. Students are expected to understand the use of metaphor and symbolism, to recognize the great literary themes (e.g., "Christian atonement" in Lord Jim, "the defiance of Lucifer" in Moby Dick), to be familiar with various literary devices. The Latin course takes them through Cicero's De Senectute, Livy, Sallust, some of St. Augustine and Horace. The Greek course covers Xenophon, Plato and Homer. In mathematics, students plunge into calculus; in German, they will read such authors as Schnitzler, Heine, Hesse, Lessing and Schiller. Finally, before going to college, they must pass special examinations...
After Harvard, the Tribune sent Glasgow to Chicago as its Midwest correspondent. He came to TIME in 1950, assigned to the Chicago bureau. Some of the TIME stories he covered include the Cicero race riots of 1951, the tragic West Frankfort, Ill coal mine disaster, the rise of Adlai Stevenson and his political campaign, some notably quotable reporting on the home life of Dr. Alfred Kinsey for the TIME cover story...
...information supplied by Wood that Dulles found the first evidence that someone in the British embassy in Turkey was selling vital Allied secrets to the Nazis. Following up Dulles' lead, the British eventually discovered that the culprit was Ambassador Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen's valet "Cicero," who, thanks to the movie Five Fingers, has become World War II's best-publicized...
...attention was arrested by the startling similarity of your first "conviction" to some words of Cicero found in his De Re Publica, III, 33. TIME says, "That God's order . . . includes a moral code . . . not subject to man's repeal, suspension or amendment." Cicero said, "There is indeed a true law . . . unchanging, everlasting ... It is not allowable to repeal, amend or suspend...
...last ten years Monsignor Bacci has been doing his best to revive and enliven the Latin of Cicero (106-43 B.C.). As editor of the Latin Dictionary of Modern Terms, he has translated hundreds of post-Ciceronian words and phrases, from newspaper reporter (diurnarius scriptor-daily writer), to spaghetti (pasta vermiculata-little worm-shaped dough) and "Tennis, anyone?" ("Ludere manubriato reticulo quisnam vult?"-"Is there someone who wants to play the game of the net with handle?"). Last week, Monsignor Bacci was embarked upon a new project: publication of the world's first international Latin quarterly...