Word: ciceros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...William Kennedy present a mixture of fact and fiction as they center their story on Dixie Dwyer (Richard Gere), a coronet player, who becomes entangled in racketeering riff-raff after he saves the life of arch- mobster Dutch Schultz. The Dutchman hires Dyers to entertain his mistress Vera Cicero (Diane Lane), and the two, unfortunately for the Dutchman fall in love. Vera, however, sticks with the mobster because of his promise to buy her her own nightclub. Meanwhile back at the ranch. Dixie's brother Vince becomes embroiled in New York's gang wars...
...Depression years and their aftermath, we forgot that first, founding lesson of the American Republic: that without proper restraints, Government the servant becomes quickly Government the master. I call it an American lesson, but actually it's much older: Cicero believed that the budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced. . . Yet even as the '50s and '60s went by, and more Americans shared my concern, Government grew like Topsy. In the '70s, federal spending tripled, taxes doubled and the national debt reached al most a trillion dollars...
...beginning of Julius Caesar, before Caesar's assassination, Casca has a premonition of disaster that he reports to Cicero: "Against the Capitol I met a lion, who glared at me, and went surly by." The implication is that in every civilization, however lofty, a lion always roams the streets; the jungle never entirely disappears. What most men fear is a lion in the soul. Women, too, perhaps, but not in the matter of rape. That is male terrain, the masculine jungle. And no man can glimpse it, even at a distance, without fury and bewilderment at his monstrous capabilities...
...Carter inflation fighter Alfred J. Kahn. MIT's Robert Solow, and Kennedy School hotshots Robert Reich and Daniel Yergin Throughout the text, the senator shows a wide ranging familiarity with Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, citing among others Winston Churchill, Leo Iolstoy, Jose Ortegay Gasset, Theodore Roszak, H.G. Wells and Cicero...
...unhysterical. "We don't want them living here," a Western Electric worker says, "but I don't think we'd have shooting or anything like that." A Polish-American welder is similarly resigned: "I'll stand it as long as I can, and then leave Cicero if I have to. But I'm not gonna burn a cross or reach for my rifle We've come too far for that in this country." That is a slight but hopeful recognition in a town that has clearly not come far enough.-By Kurt Andersen. Reported...