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...honor. But the words that provoked riot and rampage were not, as one might expect, Algerian battle cries. They were "itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini," sung by Johnny Hallyday, France's first and only authentic rock 'n' roller, the Elvis Presley of Thither Gaul...
Like Caesar's Gaul, the platform is divided into three principal parts: Defense & Foreign Policy. The essential goal of foreign policy, says the platform is "an enduring peace in which the universal values of human dignity, truth and justice under law are finally secured for all men everywhere on earth" - a more elaborate statement of President Eisenhower's "peace with justice." As aids to the cause of peace, the platform proposes more foreign economic aid, expanded world trade (with a cryptic promise of "international agreements to assure . . . fair labor standards to protect our own workers"), liberalized immigration policies...
...Ides of March. As in Warner's earlier volume, The Young Caesar, a restlessly wakeful Julius is musing -in flashbacks-over his career. Since the book covers the last 15 years of Caesar's life, he has a lot to muse over. First, Caesar remembers marching into Gaul, and Author Warner does ample justice to the tactics of the Gallic wars (as Caesar did in his own Commentaries), but considering that a million tribesmen were killed and another million taken prisoner, Warner's account of the campaigns is curiously bloodless. All the other facts are equally familiar...
Standing behind his towering welded shields, César now philosophically observes all Gaul at his feet. The only one who seems to have any doubts is César himself. When passion is spent and the iron is cool, he views his own works with sobering detachment. Says César: "I wind up foreign to my sculptures, and see them lucidly. The result is I'm always kicking myself in the rear...
...nothing special-a minor satellite of the Roman Empire, to which it paid tribute in return for protection. But its young king had grand ideas, first of an independent state, then of empire. Choosing a moment when Rome's legions were preoccupied in Africa and in Gaul, Mithradates built a fleet, gathered an army, and in ten years swept from the northern shore of the Black Sea to the Mediterranean and the fringe of ancient Greece. Naturally enough, the conqueror was indignant when his wife-and-sister, the queen, tried to poison him. Mithradates, who had foresightedly taken small...