Word: octavians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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King Carol skipped all these, therefore, to pick as Premier white-haired, sleepy-eyed Octavian Goga of the little National Christian Party. As a poet Octavian Goga's reputation rests largely on a series of translations of Hungarian epics. As a politician he won the awed admiration of Balkans by conducting the most slickly corrupt elections ever seen as Minister of the Interior in 1926. But Goga exactly suited King Carol because, although violently antiSemitic, he is a good friend of Jewess Lupescu; although a Fascist, a bitter enemy of Iron Guardsman Codreanu. In jig time last week...
...never achieved such results. That Caesar and Antony went down was not Cleopatra's fault; if, says Ludwig, they had followed her advice, her example in killing off two brothers and two sisters, had not naively pardoned their enemies, everything would have been all right. Pale, cold-blooded Octavian, whom easygoing Antony had twice neglected to "liquidate," won out because he followed a more modern technique of demagogy and blood purges. It is in tracing such blunders of Caesar and Antony that Author Ludwig makes Cleopatra's maneuvers shine with genius, makes her biography a nice contemporary commentary...
Underlying purpose of Cleopatra's maneuvers, avers Ludwig, was to preserve her honor as patriot, mother, loving wife. In order to make this point, he rejects the orthodox version: that she made a deal with Octavian to assassinate Antony, tricked him into suicide, committed suicide herself only when her planned seduction of Octavian did not work...
...logical sequence that Nicholas Titulescu was finally dropped as Foreign Minister of Rumania as he lay sick on the French Riviera. Sick too was the erstwhile predominance of Paris at Bucharest and in the Rumanian capital a new star had shot up with a Nazi sizzle, Dr. Octavian Goga...
Abbott McC. Washburn, Jr. '37, of Minneapolis, and a graduate of Andover; and Octavian M. Stirling, Jr. '38, of Fallston, Maryland, and a graduate of St. James School, to become Literary Associates; and Samuel N. Hinckley '39, of Cedarhurst, New York, and a graduate of Groton to become a member of the Business Board...