Word: romane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia's General (charity) Hospital last week lay one Mary Bocassini, 27. She was about 1) to have a baby and 2) to die of tuberculosis. Her Roman Catholic husband resolutely cried: "If my wife must die, it is the will of God, and my baby must die. . . . If one must die, both must...
Since 1876. Psyttaleia's headless Ceres has occupied a niche over the main entrance of the Academy's later building at Broad and Cherry Streets. To the sculptor who hewed and chiseled her broad figure in the time of Praxiteles, she represented not Roman Ceres but Greek Demeter, "earth mother," goddess of fertility, mother of Persephone whom Pluto carried off to the underworld. One of the few pieces of ancient Greek sculpture which have been left outdoors since discovery, Ceres has been getting blacker every year in Philadelphia's smoky air, has finally begun to crumble...
...most readers, interest in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is now eclipsed by the much-predicted decline & fall of the civilization now current. Because he wrote colorfully and lacked the wide propagandist streak of many modern historians, Edward Gibbon seems to most present-day readers less the greatest English historian than the most industrious and fervid of historical novelists. About the only part of Gibbon's reputation so far not attacked is his claim to being the ugliest historian in English literature, and of having produced, for his size, the most impressive work...
...only survivor of seven) "he tended towards consumption and dropsy, was subject to violent fluctuations of temperature, suffered a contraction of the nerves, and had a fistula in one eye." Able at 12 to recite Pope's Homer and the Arabian Nights, he was soon so deep in Roman history that he resented mealtime, could not go to sleep for thinking about discrepant history dates. Sent to Oxford as a gentleman scholar at 15. he had "no duties and many privileges." Discovering that nobody minded if he cut classes, he spent most of the school year traveling, studied...
...free to settle down abroad to complete his history, wait for relatives to die to solve his financial problems, bask in the attention paid him by Europe's greatest authors, but more particularly by pretty women, and acquire at last the warming conviction that he was the Roman Empire...