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...length, the most basic evidence for why America probably won’t become a modern-day Roman Empire is the fact that, well, we’ve already had the chance and chosen to pass on it. Oh, sure, some point to our military bases around the world, and others use globalization as proof of informal U.S. imperialism. Yet Turkey has long hosted American troops, and it flatly denied our requests for basing and transit rights during the Iraqi campaign. If we really were an empire, then surely we would’ve used our established presence to force...
...Robed in rich yellow brick,” and crowned by a smokestack that Barr compared to an Italian basilica, the Necco factory united the three ideals coined by the earliest Roman architect: Venustas, architectural beauty; Firmitas, “exquisite structural virtuosity;” and Utilitas—usefulness—the trait that made the building “genuinely modern...
...every turn by his well-meaning but dimwitted German servant who manages to keep the “lovebirds” together, thus innocently making a mess of his employer’s love life. “The Castrata” plunges the conceited composer Pizzicato into the Roman world of intriguing cardinals Di Gorgonzola and Manicotti, with a handsome prince and a cross-dressing, would-be castrato thrown in, to thoroughly complicate matters both musical and romantic. Friday, April 25 through Sunday, April 27. 8 p.m. Tickets $5, $4 students, $4 seniors, $3 Adams House residents, available through...
Posters implied that pre-frosh girls will be admitted free of charge, in a nod to last year’s controversial Decadanza posters that promised free entrance to Roman Vestal Virgins, a.k.a. first-year girls. But the high-minded shouldn’t work themselves into a lather over the reference—organizers say it is meant as a joke...
...feel as though I don't belong in this era." He concluded that a spectacular suicide was the only way to get "people to search their consciences and try to lessen the evil they commit every day." After parts of the note were published in the Czech media, Roman Másl read it and "his eyes were glowing when he told me about it," says Lucie Hlavínová, his confidante and schoolmate. "He admired what he did." And then he copied it. Late in the evening of April 1, Másl packed his belongings into...