Word: julius
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Politics is not celebrated for the manufacture of good news-except in campaign promises. Yet the nation has successfully weathered its severest constitutional crisis without producing oligarchy or chaos. The three-way division of powers, which has provoked more funeral orations than Julius Caesar, still functions. If the recent election showed evidence of apathy, it also provided examples of vigor. Harvard Sociologist Thomas Pettigrew sees "serious good news" in the massive gains that blacks made in Congress and state legislatures. Connecticut's Ella Grasso, the first woman to become Governor without benefit of her husband's coattails...
...pipe organ. The old instrument, installed in 1929 but never totally satisfactory, had been removed in the mid-'60s. But to install a new console and set of pipes would have meant tearing out the stage walls and changing their shape. To Carnegie's executive director, Julius Bloom, that would have been as risky as prying apart a Stradivarius violin. What...
When the young Roman Republic found itself dominating the world, it became clear that its traditional political system, moral code and institutions were not working properly. Julius Caesar understood this and wanted to act accordingly. That was his genius and his tragedy. Brutus was an honorable man, trying blindly to preserve the virtues of yesterday. When his dagger ended Caesar's vision, inadequate concepts and institutions were partly preserved, contributing to Rome's decadence and fall...
...right that three-quarters of a century after he died of stomach cancer in Paris, Moreau should now be having his first American retrospective in that breeding pool of every psychic fad, Southern California. Composed of 88 oils, water-colors and drawings, it has been assembled by Art Historian Julius Kaplan for the Los Angeles County Museum...
Starts Sun.: Julius Caesar, 4, 8:30 and A Midsummer Night's Dream...