Word: imperiale
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The symbols of the Soviet Union's sudden greatness are powered (as befits a state whose philosophy is materialism in flux) by twin motors, and airborne on the wings of mighty, pulsing transport planes. Fanaticism, like the air, knows no frontiers, and Moscow's big, drab airport (once...
The London Times also delivered itself of some occasional thoughts: "Britain, as much as any nation of the modern world, has learned the Roman lesson and followed in the Roman path. It may be fanciful to imagine that any afflatus of high statesmanship passed from Caesar to his noble and...
"Jus Romanum, Imperium Romanum, Pax Romana-by changing the adjective Britain has given to each of them a changed flavor and connotation. But that is only because the tradition at the heart of them is a living thing, and grows continually. After two thousand years an imperial people can with...
Jazz and Democracy. By last week the U.S. imprint was strong on Japan. Japanese girls strolled hand in hand with G.I.s beside the imperial moat. Children played with toy models of American "jeepu"; women copied U.S. fashions. In Tokyo a special school taught U.S. slang, and cinema fans queued up...
Chief among these undesirable elements: local "reactionaries" (e.g., Mihailovich in Adamic's native Yugoslavia) and representatives of Imperial Britain as in Greece). Adamic seemed to worry little about local Communists and representatives of Imperial U.S.S.R. His hope was that Britain-and the Soviet Union-would think it "wise" for...