Word: punic
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...wallets. But he doesn't add anything. (As TIME Theater critic Ted Kalem said of Cats back in 1982: "You'll leave the theater humming other people's better songs.") That's a shame, because Korie has a knack for clever lyrics; I'd never heard eunuch and Punic rhymed before. For the "Drift Away" bridge he conjures a lovely wistfulness - "Our tete-a-tetes, midnight duets, / Our breakfast tea and toast, / Funny how things that mean the least/ Are what we'll miss the most" - that approaches the pop poetry of Broadway's Golden Age lyric masters...
...Empire. Nor can we contemplate the Greeks trading overmuch with the Parthians. We may be at peace with the Parthians now, but they are a looming presence in the East, and, one day, might do more than trade with the Greeks. Compared to such a prospect, the Punic Wars would be like a day at the Games...
These are very good points, and the babble inside the Beltway delivers no answers. Instead, there is much loose talk about America-as-new-Rome. But Rome never held hearings on the Punic Wars, nor did it slide in and out of indecisive contests. Beholden to 535 Secretaries of State, as Henry Kissinger liked to mock the Congress, the U.S., the oldest democracy in the world, has neither an imperial class nor an imperial ethos. It is Gulliver without the patience to rule...
...Vietnam. "Saving Private Ryan" brought it back, along with Tom Brokaw's book "The Greatest Generation." But in the next week, because of the anniversary, Vietnam will zoom close again in its vividness for those of us who remember it. To the young, it might as well be the Punic Wars...
...fashioned by University of Virginia English professor E.D. Hirsch Jr., author of the best seller Cultural Literacy, on the premise that there's a canon of facts that all schoolchildren should know. In lieu of precise lesson plans, teachers are told that third-graders, for example, should study the Punic Wars and sixth-graders selections from Shakespeare. "There's been a real diffuseness in curricula," says former Education Secretary William Bennett, whose new book The Educated Child lays out a grade-school curriculum based on Core Knowledge. "Kids are reading Batman rather than Henry James, and that...