Word: emperors
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Romulus is the last emperor of Rome. As a symbol he represents the highest consciousness of the epitome of Roman decadence. His hyper-intellectual views are in opposition to the blind devotion, "pro patria" attitude of his court. He feels obliged to affect Rome's end, because he sees through its facade of greatness. He is a Superman in mind but not in charisma...
...Palace compound, stooping to cut the rice plants in an annual harvest ritual as old as the gods of Japan. Their leader, in a gray shirt and a battered panama hat, was once considered the descendant of the sun and is still patron of all agriculture-the Emperor himself. In a traditional announcement, the Palace reported that Hirohito, 68, and his chamberlains had harvested "a good crop" from the 350-square-yard paddy. Part of the sacred grain will be distilled into black and white sake and offered to imperial ancestors in the Palace's inner sanctuary...
Died. Rex Ingram, 73, veteran black actor, whose resonant voice and commanding figure graced dozens of plays (The Emperor Jones, Cabin in the Sky, Porgy) and Hollywood films, most notably when he played De Lawd in 1936's The Green Pastures; of a heart attack; in Hollywood...
...Quebec's Laval University, who has written a literary critique of Grass, calls the novelist "the direct descendant of Walther von der Vogelweide," a poet who in the 13th century stumped the German dukedoms in support of Kaiser Friedrich II's struggle to become Holy Roman Emperor. "Grass," says Schwarz, "is the only great German writer in 700 years to take such a direct part in politics, laying aside the pen in favor of straight participation...
...more widely held view was expressed by an Ajaccio lycée history teacher, André Fazi: "All things considered, Napoleon's balance sheet seems positive. I'll admit, though, that Bonaparte the revolutionary Consul was more admirable than Napoleon the Emperor. As somebody said, they should have killed Napoleon at the foot of a statue of Bonaparte...