Word: emperor
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...Cagliari, Paul was welcomed by the blast of boat whistles and salvos of fresh carnations and mimosa blossoms tossed in his path. Never before had a reigning Pontiff been on the island; the last papal visitor was Pontianus, who was exiled there in A.D. 235 by the Christian-hating Emperor Maximinus Thrax...
...static. The orchestra followed Rudolf in his highly correct and well paced interpretation, while Serkin played his own version, accenting different notes than the orchestra, making the humorous passages of the last movement so fast and racy that it sounded like Milhaud. The Fifth Concerto was almost unbearable. The Emperor has grown so familiar to the BSO that the orchestra dismisses it lightly. Only a few forte passages of the first movement and the opening of the second had any sort of inspiration, and the second movement fell apart before the end of twenty bars. The only redeeming features...
...Roman emperor Juvenal is recognized in history for his domestic policy of bread and circuses. Sage enough to realize that the slightest expression of widespread popular discontent could send his regime toppling, he fastened upon superficial appeasement of the masses as the solution to his own social problems...
...decadent disrepair of the art of their time, and look back wistfully to past classics. Having thus conveniently suspended the present in cultural malaise, the two head off to a banquet/orgy given by Trimalchio. a fat old fart whom Petronius, the author of the original Satyricon, patterned after the Emperor Nero. The debauch at the party is complete, happily (for me) beyond the descriptive power of adjectives and adverbs. Merriment is cooled by a breach of good taste when Eumolphus accuses Trimalchio of plagiarizing Lucretius, Obviously he is correct, for Trimalchio immediately orders him thrown into a fire...
France landed its first military expedition in Viet Nam in 1858, ostensibly to protect missionaries who were being put to death by the Vietnamese Emperor for teaching Christianity. Soon the French objective was to colonize rather than Christianize, and by 1883 Paris had established a "protectorate" in Cambodia and occupied all of Viet Nam; in 1899, it placed a résident supérieur in Vientiane. Economically, the French were unabashed parasites. As one report of the time put it: "Colonial production must be limited to supplying the mother country with raw materials...