Word: romane
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Jonestown has even been rivaled as a mass suicide. The Jewish Zealots defending the fortress of Masada against besieging Roman legions in A.D. 73 chose self-slaughter rather than submission; 960 men, women and children died. The event occupies a place of some reverence in Jewish memory and is not really comparable to Jonestown; the Zealots faced the prospect of slaughter or slavery, and their choice therefore possessed a certain passionate rationality. In the 17th century, Russian Orthodox dissenters called the Old Believers refused to accept liturgical reforms. Over a period of years some 20,000 peasants in protest abandoned...
Caius Marcius (Alan Howard) has won the added name of Coriolanus by defeating the Volscians at Corioli. He is a Roman of boundless valor and steely pride. The patricians put him up for consul of Rome and the plebeians grudgingly accede, though Coriolanus refuses to do any political truckling to secure their favor. Furious at his open contempt, the plebs rescind their approval and have him banished from the city...
...YEAR 73 A.D. a group of Canaanites held down the last stronghold of resistance against the inevitably victorious legions of Rome. From their desert fortress, the defenders and their families, cognizant of the fact that the rest of their nation had fallen, watched the Roman soldiers encircle them. The situation was hopeless, they decided; even if they fought off this wave of soldiers another would come, and then another--as many as it would take--until the siege snuffed out the defenders. With all this in mind, the defenders of the embattled mountaintop called Masada decided that the only logical...
Some of the entries are predictable and disagreeable. Both Wagners were virulent anti-Semites, occasionally to the point of black comedy. Lamenting, as he often did, the decline of morality and religion, Wagner concluded, "The old Jewish God always ruins the whole thing." Roman Catholics stood little higher in their estimation and they loathed the French too. During the Franco-Prussian War, they summed things up by saying that France "has been undermined by the spirit of the Jesuits...
...pushing the motion. "Their culture is different from our own," he said of the U.S. "They actually enjoy confrontation and they tend to politicize where we play things down." But what of the danger that approval of women priests would rupture the fragile ecumenical bridge that the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches are building? Archbishop of Canterbury Donald Coggan, the highest primate of the church and a proponent of women priests, sought to ease that concern by declaring of the Catholics: "I think they would welcome our lead." But in the end, the women were turned down. As Graham Leonard...