Word: roman
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...first Roman to protest that his city was being despoiled by wanton demolition of ancient monuments and tasteless modern construction is lost to history, but two things about him are fairly sure: he made his complaint in Latin, and lived in the days of the Caesars. Last week, joining a long line of outraged traditionalists ranging from the Emperor Majorian (A.D. 457-461) to Pope Pius II (1458-64), famed Italian Novelist Alberto Moravia lamented: "The Dark Ages and the Barbarians are come again. But this time they have modern means. This is the end of Rome...
...felt. In last year's elections, when the parties campaigned in half a dozen languages, most of the newcomers, as satellite refugees from Communism, backed Conservative Premier Robert Menzies. But some of Menzies' aides shudder to think what would happen to their own fortunes if the Continental Roman Catholics joined up eventually with Irish Catholics among the Old Australians, who traditionally vote Labor...
...finished in about eight years, it will create one of the largest artificial lakes in the world--over 200 miles long. Lost beneath the waters will be the whole of pre-historic Nubia, according to Brew. Archaeological remains from paleolithic Nubria, pre-dynastic and dynastic Egypt, and Greco-Roman culture are in the threatened area...
...year-old son Dmitri), Invitation to a Beheading will offer innumerable meanings to readers-or no meaning at all. But the 20th century being what it is, the political interpretation comes first to mind. No period is stated; the prisoner's name carries echoes of Roman civic virtue, the jailers' names are Russian, and the executioner is known (in an echo of the French Revolution?) as M'sieur Pierre. The prison itself is timeless, universal, born of an idea turned into phantasm. Its antic rules ("the management shall in no case be responsible for the loss...
Fresh & Incalculable. Author Mattingly, professor of European history at Columbia University, begins his account with the execution of Mary Stuart, Roman Catholic Queen of Scotland, in February 1587. Partly as a result, Spain's King Philip II, known as "the Prudent," abandoned prudence long enough to let himself be talked into a campaign designed to cut Protestant Elizabeth down to size. The project, tersely referred to as The Enterprise, was hastily begun. From the start, nothing went right with armaments, provisions, recruiting, and 3½ months be fore the Armada was to sail, its aged admiral died. King Philip...