Word: pontifex
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Julius: Pontifex Maximus, you rascal...
...other words, Herzen knew the Animal Farm that Russia was to become. The astonishing thing is that this half-forgotten philosopher was as modern as an existentialist, and warned against "modern man, that melancholy Pontifex Maximus" i.e., every man his own pope. Herzen's message, supported by brilliant observation of a Europe which was grandfather to today's discontents, is the simple one that no man is fit to be the master of another, whether his rule is imposed in the name of privilege or brotherhood. Today Herzen makes clear what the world lost when Russia turned...
...office that has often been near destruction, often corrupt, often hated. Nevertheless, Viva il Papa, Viva il Papa! shouted the crowds in Rome. They were cheering not only the office, not only a faith, not only the past in which they glory. They were cheering not only the Pontifex Maximus as they have almost always cheered him, but a man. For Eugenio Pacelli, for the past 15 years known as Pius XII, Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ, is a new kind of Pope...
...Father's Footsteps The full name of the little Dutch girl was Annie Caroline Pontifex Toorop, but her masterful painter-father Jan soon cut it down to plain "Charley"-explaining that he just liked the name. Father Jan was less masterful in his attempts to make Charley study art; she determined to study music instead. But Jan Toorop won in the end: when Charley's marriage broke up, leaving her with three small children to raise, she turned to painting to help make ends meet...