Word: mommsen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great merit of Duggan's Caesar is that he is not a tailor's dummy draped in a thesis. Professional historians from Tacitus to Mommsen have cloaked Caesar in dissertations about one-man power, the Roman constitution, and the pros and cons of emperors and empires. On the other hand, Duggan feels no need to give Caesar a coating of grease paint so he can strut the stage. Author Duggan has grasped the elusive obvious, that great men are measured by heritage, not histrionics. As Duggan sees it, Caesar's enduring heritage was divided into three parts...
...week's end, close to 2,000 readers had swamped the Alsops with answers (most of them wrong). The winner: Theodore Geiger, 38, National Planning Assoc. research chief, who was first to guess that the quote was from Theodor Mommsen's History of Rome, the opponents Rome (Russia) and Carthage (the U.S.). The victor: Rome...