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In chronology and scope, Miss Pullar's bibliography runs from Juvenal's Satires to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Tracing the vagaries of English appetite from the Roman occupation to the present, she has written a history of taste in the fullest sense of the word.
A similar trend marked Rome long before its fall. Juvenal decried the ubiquity of foppish, feminine, perfumed males. Elagabalus appeared publicly in women's clothes. Caesar was likened to "every man's wife and every woman's husband"; Antony had a harem of men and women; and...
Dr. Hutschnecker's Orwellian proposal has stirred strong criticism from many experts who argue that there is simply no scientific way to test a future criminal with any degree of accuracy. Said Caleb Foote, a University of California law professor and criminologist: "The idea of predicting future criminal careers...
The Roman emperor Juvenal is recognized in history for his domestic policy of bread and circuses. Sage enough to realize that the slightest expression of widespread popular discontent could send his regime toppling, he fastened upon superficial appeasement of the masses as the solution to his own social problems.
As always, there is Auden modestly on the stump, or in the pulpit, but steadily aware of the dangers of pontificating. In the title poem, he invokes his Age of Anxiety themes, then introduces a second voice to cut himself down: "What fun and games you find it to play...