Word: ciceroism
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While his wife was busy in the kitchen, young (29) Rev. W. W. Powell, whose Bethel Lutheran Church has the biggest congregation in thriving little Cicero, Ind., sat in a rocking chair in his living room considering a newsman's question...
...Cicero (pop. 1,058) is off the main highways, set in the midst of some of the richest farmlands in Indiana. Its farmers and merchants have a lot of money in the Hamilton County bank. They do not jump at conclusions...
...long afterwards, Picasso gave up painting as a bad job. For two years he loafed, and did a little writing in a style that seemed to derive from Gertrude Stein and an old grad's 25th-anniversary recollections of Marcus Tullius Cicero. Sample: "Nothing to do but to watch the thread that destiny works which taints the theft of the glass from the mind that shakes the hour coiled up in remembrances toasted on grills of blue...
...harvest of old age," said Cicero, "is the recollection and abundance of blessings previously secured." Cicero wrote of the blessing of serenity achieved by a mellow and philosophical mind. Modern industrial man has a different blessing in view: economic security. And, like Cicero, he feels that it should be "previously secured...
Acta's lead articles usually retell the stories of such noble correspondents as Caesar and Cicero. But like any enterprising newspaper, Acta prints a good deal more than spot news. There are such circulation boosters as Poppaedius the Sailorman, an Acrostichis Duplex (double acrostic), an Aenigma Verbale (crossword puzzle), and occasionally something that looks like an ad. ("Putabat to gam suam candidam esse!" snorts one Senator about another, in apparent anticipation of the 20th Century catch line of Britain's Persil soap powder, "I thought my shirt was white...