Word: dominus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Author Wylie: Dominus Vobiscum...
...Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize of $170 and a silver medal, for the best poem on any subject, was won by F. Gar- ner Ranney '42, of London, England, for his elegy "Nisi Dominus, Frustra...
Josephus and the Emperor takes the inevitable tragedy a step further, tells what happens when an antiSemitic, Romanizing Emperor, the Lord and God Domitian (Dominus ac Deus Domitianus, "D.D.D." to his friends), destroys the very basis of Josephus' verbal internationalism, destroys his prestige, his son, his life. At last the broken and aging Jew, thrown back on simple nationalism, is killed in Judea by ignorant Roman horse troopers while he is trying to reach a band of Jewish rebels like those he repudiated in his youth. He is buried in his native earth, but his grave is unknown. Paradoxically...