Word: panem
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...notion is as true today as it was in Roman times, and we are pleased to see that the Undergraduate Council is providing entertainment to the Harvard masses. The ancient Greeks had theater and the Romans had chariot races, but here in the land of Edison, Americans have movies. Panem et circenses (bread and circuses) has become “popcorn and movies...
...came, to be entertained by panem and circenses. The panis was 600 gallons of rather watery punch, served on Wednesday afternoons in the Yard. The circus consisted of a plenthora of diversions, from concerts at Tanglewood to mixers in the Union...
...Like the panem at circenses which the government has provided for the public in ringmaster Pecora and his fawning troupe of agile performers, J. P. Morgan and Kuhn, Leeb, the World Economic Conference has accomplished nothing and, though far more significant, is much less entertaining. The present impasse points to the fact that the Conference will see nothing more constructive done than the Geneva disarmament committees, which are already doomed by air incongrous plan emanating from Washington to give the United States the largest navy in the world. It is such contrary turns that bewilder the people about the real...
Bread & Gas. Panem et circenses, bread and circuses, were the prime requisites of happiness for the plebs of ancient Rome. Bread and gasoline are prime popular requisites today. Last week no wise Emperor but two ferocious price wars made bread and gas fantastically cheap in San Francisco-three loaves for 10? and 7? a gallon...
Pater noster, qui es in caelis: sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo, et in terra. Panem nostrum supersubstantialem da nobis hodie. Et dimitte nobis debita nostra, sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem. Sed libera nos a malo. Amen...