Word: romes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...June 15, venerable, but slightly doddering, History 1 will join the ranks of Former Harvard Greats. Just after World War I the renowned back-breaker assumed its present form, surveying Western Europe from the Fall of Rome to the present. It saw glorious days under President Lowell as the core of Harvard education, a pre-requisite for every undergraduate in History, Government, and Economics. In recent years, however, its age has begun to show, and its passing is no surprise...
Eastland (Miss.) . . . In the Roman Senate there existed for 450 years the right of unlimited debate . . . Cicero, at the very height of Rome's power, said in the Roman Senate that if a change of that rule were ever made, it would mark the decline of Rome...
...conform. I thought John Dos Passos was a terrible yellow belly for griping about the war." But at the time, he thought he had the world by the tail. He went to Europe in 1921 ("I was Lord Byron on a triumphal tour. God, it was wonderful!"), and in Rome became engaged to Christina Sedgwick, niece of Atlantic Monthly Editor Ellery Sedgwick. By Marquand's account, his marriage brought him "face to face with the capitalist system...
What remained of ancient Rome when young Giovanni Battista Piranesi came down from Venice in 1740, was a pretty depressing sight for a would-be architect. The Forum was a clutter of shattered columns commonly known as "Cows' Field." The once-glorious Capitol was "Goats' Hill." The arcades of,the Colosseum were smothered in weeds and shrubs, and every day a few more stones disappeared on the carts of enterprising masons...
...into plenty of fights, never backed away from one. Pounding out slam-bang editorials against the corruption of Hollywood, he ended up on the wrong end of a $10,200 libel judgment against The Churchman. But in the late '305, his zeal, which was also sharply anti-Rome, began to find new, political channels of expression. The details of the trend were laid down in a 3,000-word document produced last week by Leon Birkhead to support his statement that The Churchman is "involved with the Communist line." The Birkhead document includes "a selected list" of 25 "Communist...