Word: proconsuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...villa was apparently built by one Ancius Petronius Probus, Rome's proconsul for Sicily in 406 and an ancestor of Pope Gregory the Great. Down the corridors of time, conquering Byzantines, Saracens and Normans trod its glittering floors. About a third of them have now been uncovered...
...splattered echo of the great Roman general, Scipio Africanus, who defeated Hannibal at Zama (202 B.C.) and was Roman proconsul in Spain. When the Roman Senate accused Scipio and his brother of accepting bribes and misappropriating funds, he tore up the account books in question, flung them on the floor of the Senate, and went into embittered exile. On his tomb, he ordered the inscription: "Ingrata patria, ne ossa quidem habebis [Ungrateful fatherland, you shall not have even my bones...
Sneered London's Daily Herald: "MacArthur, wearing his self-tailored mantle of proconsul . . . may have . . . wrecked ... a new approach to Communist China." The Times of London shook its august head over the Supreme Commander's mention of carrying the war to the Chinese mainland. The Economist sighed: "One of the most mischievous of all [MacArthur's] pronouncements...
...almost recaptures the spirit of Dodsworth, Lewis observes: "Mr. Henry James was breathless over the spectacle of Americans living abroad and how very queer they are. . .But just how queer they are, Mr. James never knew. He never saw a radio reporter, never talked to an American Oil Company proconsul gossiping in the Via Veneto about his native Texas . . . Mr. James's . . . young American suitor, apologetic for having been reared in the rustic innocence of Harvard instead of the Byzantine courtliness of a bed-sitting-room at Oxford, has been replaced by the American flying major who in Africa...
Soviet Colonel General Terenty Shtykov (in Russian his last name means bayonet man), the real military brain behind the North Korean army. Titularly Soviet ambassador to the Korean "People's Republic," he is actually Stalin's proconsul, ruling North Korea (through Kim II Sung) from his roomy, three-story mansion, built on the site of the old Presbyterian Mission compound in Pyongyang. Burly, deadpanned, boorish, he was Soviet delegate on the Joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. [Korean] Commission in 1946. His U.S. opposite number was Major General A. V. Arnold. At one session Shtykov observed testily: "Lenin once said that...