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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They were double men, harking back nostalgically to the rustic, roughhewn virtues of the Romans who fought the Punic Wars, while themselves breathing the elegant, enervating and sometimes fetid air of imperial Rome. They tended to polish more than to publish. Only Vergil attempted the epic, and he thought so poorly of The Aeneid that on his deathbed he asked to destroy the manuscript. Catullus, Propertius and Tibullus were ravaged by hard-boiled mistresses, and their poems tell of virtually the only battle they ever fought-the war between the sexes. They knew or sensed that their culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Latin Without Tears | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

CENSORSHIP. "The Legion of Decency and the National Office for Decent Literature ... do not regard themselves as 'censors.' They do, however, publish moral appraisals of movies and books. As a result, they are looked upon by Protestants as 'unAmerican pressure groups,' or as symbols of the intolerance of Catholics. [But the Legion addresses] its directives only to Catholics. Protestants are just as concerned as Catholics are to protect their youngsters from suggestive and defiling influences. The trouble is that some Protestants seem to feel themselves almost obliged to patronize the movie which the Catholics condemned-just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Protestant-Catholic Conflict | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

What a fitting article for you to publish on the day following Lincoln's birthday. As history has revealed Lincoln to be the Negroes' Moses, I doubt not that Martin Luther King Jr. will be their Joshua...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 4, 1957 | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

Smith said that he had planned to publish anyway, but because of Giles' refusal to provide copy and his own desire to abide by the Student Council recommendation to suspend the HYRC charter, he did not. He stated that the paper is not folding, and will come out again next Thursday...

Author: By Bryce E. Nelson, | Title: HYRC Will Not Publish Newspaper This Week | 2/28/1957 | See Source »

Unless influential hoax-candidate leaders persuade the Union Committee to publish the results of this unofficial race, no write-in ballots will be counted. We believe that the votes should be accredited, however, since we think Oliver A. Yabook would prove an exemplary Jubilee Chairman. And, in the event that Lamont Dupont should lose, we are hoping that he will condescend to run for the HYRC presidency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Political Scene | 2/28/1957 | See Source »

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