Word: romana
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...labels to the most hideous practices, most governments sooner or later find euphemism an indispensable device. "Pacification" has become a popular term for war ("War is peace," as the Ministry of Truth says in Nineteen Eighty-Four), but the Romans meant much the same thing by the term Pax Romana. "Where they make a desert, they call it peace," protested an English nobleman quoted in Tacitus. Viet Nam brought us new words for the old realities: soldiers "wasted" the enemy, some "fragged" their own officers, bombers provided "close air support." Even the CIA contributed a verbal novelty: "termination with extreme...
...strike, but goes along with it to show his solidarity with the workers' rights. Shocked by his son's actions to the contrary, we see his poignant realization of his son's misdirection, not cowardice, at the moment Tiao becomes a scab. With the backing of his wife Romana. Otavio kicks Tiao out of the house, preferring to lose his son than shelter a traitor to the worker's cause...
...president of Pax Romana, the International Movement of Catholic Lawyers, Pettiti once headed a team that investigated cases of torture by the Shah's security forces. Although he later became friends with President Banisadr and other Iranian exiles in France, Pettiti is known for his evenhandedness. Says one colleague: "He has the kind of impartiality that would allow him to begin his service on this commission without knowing today what conclusion he will reach tomorrow...
...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...