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...livid rhetoric creates a verbal log jam, with prepositions flying wild, clauses drifting crazily and parentheses multiplying like rabbits. But when he is really in command of his story (about half the time), Faulkner makes his rhetoric work for him, even when it is full of echoes of Ciceronian oratory and of overripe Elizabethan poetry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Haunted Landscapes | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

...resurgence of oldsters into wartime industry has given scientists a good chance to check up on this Ciceronian saw. In the Harvard Business Review Professor Ross Armstrong McFarland of the Harvard Medical School reported findings indicating that Cicero was right. The consensus of recent studies, McFarland's and others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: De Senectute | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

...Time & again his visible audience burst into applause, cheers and halloos as if at a political rally. When they did so, without looking down, the President grabbed a glass of water standing at his elbow, took a hasty gulp, then drove home his point with an additional turn of Ciceronian rhetoric. As in all State of the Union messages to Congress, President Roosevelt surveyed the world at large, assaying U. S. international relations. Naming no names, the man who Republicans pretend to fear may become a U. S. dictator, said some hard, blunt things about dictatorships which made Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: State of the Union | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

...after an appendectomy; in Pasadena. ¶Died- Adelheid Emma Wilhelmina Theresia, 75, Dowager Queen of The Netherlands, mother of Queen Wilhelmina; of bronchitis; at The Hague. After the death of King William III in 1890. she acted as regent for eight years. Died- Jacob Seibert, 76, arduous and Ciceronian editor of the Commercial & Financial Chronicle, dean of Wall Street weeklies; following an operation for cancer; in Brooklyn, N. Y.¶ Died. Robert Alexander Long, 83, board chairman of Long-Bell Lumber Co., founder of Longview, Wash., model city; after an operation for intestinal obstruction; in Kansas City. At 22, Lumberman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 26, 1934 | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

Brusque, blunt, subtle in spite of his manner is Pietro Gasparri. Swarthy, stout of frame, broad of shoulder, his head is Ciceronian. His apartment in the Vatican, directly beneath the Pope's and connected with it by a private elevator, is of two rooms. His retinue includes a butler, a cook, a valet, a green parrot. In the little cemetery at Ussita, his home village, where the peasants call him "Don Pietro," his tomb is ready, inscription...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Statesman Retires | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

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