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...deny the obvious (Crimson., Nov. 14). Professor Clive's reasons are especially striking: he asserts "that America's tremendous technological capacity makes any comparisons between the United States and Rome meaningless." Also, "One sure indication that America is not declining is that more and more people are reading Gibbon...
Pelikan presented similar views and made comparisons between declining Rome and modern American at a conference in Washington Wednesday commemorating the upcoming bicentennial of historian Edward Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire...
...sure indication that America is not declining is that more and more people are reading Gibbon," Clive said...
Clive said yesterday that he and G. W. Bowersock '57, chairman of the Classics Department, will attend another Gibbon bicentennial conference in Rome this January, The conference, which Bower-sock called "Clive's brainchild," will be sponsored by the magazine "Daedalus," and will include 20 scholars from the United States and Europe...
Especially because of your review of the first volume of Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, I feel obliged to point out that the Bicentennial of American independence will also be the 1,500th anniversary of the fall of the Roman Empire in the West in 476. A better coincidence you couldn't find...