Word: rome
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America is more handicapped than Rome, Pelikan said yesterday, because of "privatism" or putting private fulfilment above the public good...
...characteristics of Rome, even in decline, was the public spirit of her citizens. The lack of this spirit in America has become shockingly apparent," he said...
Pelikan cited the professionalism of the army, changing attitudes towards the family, and the growth of moral relativism as further parallels between Rome and the United States...
John L. Clive, professor of History and Literature, said yesterday that America's tremendous technological capability makes any comparisons between the United States and Rome meaningless. John Womack Jr. '59 professor of History, agreed with Clive and called Pelikan's speculations "idle and frivolous...
Clive said yesterday that he and G. W. Bowersock '57, chairman of the Classics Department, will attend another Gibbon bicentennial conference in Rome this January, The conference, which Bower-sock called "Clive's brainchild," will be sponsored by the magazine "Daedalus," and will include 20 scholars from the United States and Europe...