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More blight than bright, the new acronyms are a kind of regression. They do not really enrich the language because they are words already. Still, they cap a fine old tradition that probably began with the Romans' SPQR (Senatus Populusque Romanus). Britons in the 19th century, for example, contributed...
The bright, modern auditorium was packed to the last seat with notables and students-Swiss and Germans, Americans and Japanese-and the air was electric with expectancy. About to make his farewell lecture last week was Basel University's professor Karl Earth, at 74 the Grand Panjandrum of Protestant...
The papers also will consider, in the histories of specific cities, some perennial problems of urban life: How did the Romans, for example, handle their traffic problems? taxes? slums? rebuilding? division of work and residence areas? farming and cultivation within the city? the relationship of the intellectual to the city...
The Urge to Purge. In analysis-conscious California, leading couch mechanics have denied that this smacks of exhibitionism, believe that it merely reflects a desire to glamorize basic functions. "The ancient Romans used to find the damnedest ways of getting pleasure," says one psychiatrist. "A good plumbing system was one...
*From the Romans' ballista (which in turn comes from the Greek ballein, to throw), an ancient machine for hurling missiles, plus the Greek for heart and writing.