Word: horatius
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...useless has it proved to be, trying to give Omar a black eye? He is an educated man of the world, somewhat like Quintus Horatius Flaccus, good company, urbane, witty, tolerant... If the noble vintage of his petry ever made adipsomaniac or his indulgent smile ever broke up a marriage, that news has yet to come in over the teletype...
...heyday of the hero, history was a game with few players, and a single man could more readily change it all. The Greeks were losing the Trojan war until Achilles was coaxed from his tent. Horatius defended Rome's bridge with only two friends, and even as late as 1528, Pizarro could overthrow the mighty Inca civilization with only 167 men -less than the number commanded by Captain William Carpenter in that recent local battle in Viet Nam. Now with a cast of many thousands or millions, each leader heads only a segment, and decision is often a synthesis...
...Died. Horatius Albarda, 61, president of Royal Dutch Airlines, fourth among international carriers, an Amsterdam lawyer who took over the floundering, top-heavy company in 1963, cut losses from $21 million to $4,000,000 last year by pruning away 4,000 excess employees, restoring Far East service, eliminating old pistons and going for jets; of injuries sustained when the twin-engine Beechcraft in which he was a passenger crashed during a storm near St. Moritz, Switzerland, also killing his wife and the two pilots...
...berth in the new Liberal Establishment. Consider the behavior of two who are still at Harvard: Samuel H. Beer, who once founded the Americans for Democratic Action, found a reason for supporting Edward M. Kennedy '54 in last fall's Senate campaign; and Seymour Harris has taken to playing Horatius at the bridge, criticizing even the mildest of President Kennedy's critics. Only David Riesman--who continues questioning our assumptions about American society (though more and more quietly)--and Barrington Moore, Jr.--who shrilly calls down the wrath of God upon bourgeois society upon the slightest provocation--could be called...
Last week, as he gazed out over 400 members of the American Legion at their annual legislative dinner in Albany, New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller knew how Horatius must have felt. Though the Korean war ended nine years ago, it is still a hot political issue in New York: so far this year, the state's Democratic and Republican legislators have introduced nearly 50 bills to provide bonuses for the state's 482,000 Korean-war veterans or their next of kin. Nine state veterans' organizations, among them the powerful Legion, are conducting...