Word: romana
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...motives behind the suicide (the death of the emperor's sister-mistress) is available for those non-believers in the true power of spiritual anguish. But the philosophical and moral message of the play is much closer to post-Marxian France than to Rome during the Pax Romana. The young, callow Caligula recognizes the hypocrisy of the dominant values and mores. Devoted to exposing the irrationality of society, he sets out to accomplish the impossible--"to capture the moon"--by personally transforming the very fabric of civilization...
...generally agree that Caesar's lesser-known nephew and heir, Gaius Octavius Caesar-later to be called Augustus-was in many ways a greater man. His conquests endured longer than those of Napoleon and Alexander; the imperial system he painfully built took five centuries to decay; the Pax Romana he warred to achieve was one of the longest periods of relative peace that history has ever known. The man himself, however, even in this excellent study by Novelist and Poet John Williams, has remained elusive...
...Special Counsel Charles Colson, Labor Secretary James Hodgson and Transportation Chief John Volpe. Ostentatiously absent from the round of meetings was White House Aide Dwight Chapin, who had been compromised by being tied into the Watergate scandal. "Chapin has got to go," declared a White House adviser. U.S. Treasurer Romana Banuelos would seem to be a likely target for dismissal, too, since her family-owned California food-processing firm was recently found guilty of unfair labor practices. Yet other factors may keep her in her present post. "Can you imagine firing a Mexican woman?" asked a Presidential assistant incredulously...
Political Conspiracy. There the matter would have ended, except that the proprietor of Ramona Foods happens to be Mrs. Romana Banuelos, a Mexican-American businesswoman whom Richard Nixon had just nominated to be the 34th Treasurer of the U.S. George K. Rosenberg, director of the Immigration Service's Los Angeles office and the man who called the raid, said he did not know Mrs. Banuelos' identity until after the raid was over. In any case, noted Rosenberg, he had sent a routine letter to Ramona Foods in August 1969, warning the company to stop employing illegal aliens...