Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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IMPERIAL-CAESAR, by Rex Warner (393 pp.; Atlantic-Little, Brown; $5), recalls the fact that, perhaps because he campaigned on their island in 55-54 B.C., British writers have been markedly fond of Julius Caesar. From Shakespeare to Shaw, they have drawn a quasi-Churchil-lian portrait of the Roman...
Apart from pithy comments on soldiering, Warner's Caesar defends himself as a kind of imperial efficiency expert surrounded by captious, old-fashioned critics, including Cicero and Cato, who are blindly resisting change. He is an Organization Superman who wants to transform Rome from a forum of squabbling, parochial...
British statesmen since 1955 have vehemently insisted that Britain's leadership of the Commonwealth ruled out British membership in the Common Market. If Britain joined the Common Market, the argument ran, it would have to abandon the "imperial preference" system, which allows Commonwealth nations to export many agricultural products...
Most of the Commonwealth nations show little enthusiasm for the Outer Seven. Since 80% of their exports to Europe already go to Common Market countries, they are openly interested in the possibilities of doing more business with the booming Six. And in increasing numbers British economists and editorialists argue that...
Head Dogcatcher. Parker is proud to style himself the "Imperial Potentate" of American snowmen, proclaims solemnly: "One never snows anyone other than to do good; never take advantage of anyone that you have been able to snow under." Much of the snow these days comes from his office in his...