Word: gaius
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Other lesser observers have made blatant comparisons. In 1968 The New Republic editorially linked the assassinations of Gaius and Tiberius Gracchus, two reforming fraternal politicians of Rome who lived more than a century before Christ, with the murders of John and Robert Kennedy. At a background briefing for press executives a year before Watergate, Richard Nixon spoke of the "great civilizations of the past, subject to the decadence that eventually destroys the civilization." Nixon went on to speculate that "the U.S. is now reaching that period." Although he agrees with Nixon on hardly any other subject, Novelist Gore Vidal...
...enormous work load in the hospital emergency room, many doctors view duty in what they call the "pit" as a form of cruel and unusual punishment; others regard it as a purgatory through which they must pass on the way to a more relaxed form of practice. But Dr. Gaius Clark, 40, of Lansing, Mich., loves every minute of it. "It is an exciting type of medicine," he says of his full-time work in the emergency room at Lansing's St. Lawrence Hospital. "You are under a great deal of stress, making all sorts of life-and-death...
...great-uncle and adoptive father, Julius Caesar, has had a far better press: well-publicized conquests, a dramatic assassination, a sympathetic portrait by one William Shakespeare. Yet historians generally agree that Caesar's lesser-known nephew and heir, Gaius Octavius Caesar-later to be called Augustus-was in many ways a greater man. His conquests endured longer than those of Napoleon and Alexander; the imperial system he painfully built took five centuries to decay; the Pax Romana he warred to achieve was one of the longest periods of relative peace that history has ever known. The man himself, however...
...little bit at a time, then you can come away with some moments that will stay with you a long time. Herbert's characters are fascinating, because they shimmer with the incomprehensibility of every human being, elevated to a higher level: St. Alia of the Knife, the Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, Scytale the Face Dancer-each moves in the story with almost mythic import...