Word: perverters
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...Italy, and even after his friend's had won for him Sulla's contemptuous pardon he was wise enough not to return till after Sulla's death. While Caesar was cultivating the arts of a courtier in Asia (Author Bentley has him companioning a pervert out of policy, implies he was not really that way himself), his rival Pompey was winning victories all over the place and becoming the darling of Rome...
Emphasis of Hail, Caesar! is less on politics or persons than on war. Author Pratt denies that Caesar was ever a pervert, even for policy; he mentions Caesar's mistress Servilia only in passing. For Caesar's rapid imposition of New Deal legislation on Rome he has nothing but implicit praise. Two-thirds of the book is devoted to a play-by-play account of Caesar's campaigns-a summary which leads Author Pratt to the surprising conclusion that Caesar "never became great as a soldier.'' He was not even a good soldier; his tactics...
...politician can afford to tell the truth. So criticism of the President's interview may possibly miss the point, which lies not in the meaning, but in the effect, of words. While sometimes a man may arise out of the muck of politics, and pervert dirty incentives and dirty objectives and dirty lies to good ends, in this case, even the effect demands Life Buoy...
...Author Briffault's imaginary characters, who are often little more than mouthpieces for ideas and opinions. Julian took up science, plunged into work, loafed at Capri with elegant specimens of Europe's moral decay. When he met Zena again he found her married to a noble Russian pervert, became her lover, recovered his emotional health but not his ambitions, spent an idyllic summer in Germany. Skeptical and enlightened as he was, he could not believe that the War could be serious or prolonged, or that it would disrupt his life with Zena. He learned it when the authorities...
Since English editors make it their duty to shield the public from certain facts of life, they deduced from Sir Bernard's findings not that the Waterloo legs had belonged to a pervert but that the murdered man "may have been attending a masquerade party...