Word: romulus
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...theater piece Romulus owes a calculable debt to Cyril Ritchard, who makes of the emperor a mock-serious dandy, and whose drolly mannered and expertly timed delivery accounts for most of the evening's laughs. Playwright Vidal's contribution to the Duerrenmatt script seems to consist of topical gags scavenged from the headlines without any visible link to the historic past. Romulus asks finally to be judged as a play of ideas when it only toys with ideas. Overlooking the fact that it takes two to make dialogue but only one to make war, Romulus clings...
Trying desperately to be Shavian, Romulus in the end rewards the playgoer with a wispy heap of intellectual shavings...
...with the rise of the absolutist monarchies in the 17th century, Gelasius' finely balanced dyarchy was shattered. Between Pope and King stood a saint who took 309 years to be canonized, Robert Francis Romulus Bellarmine (1542-1621), whose influence reached far beyond his lifetime. His was a time of upheaval; Galileo was turning the old earth-centered cosmos upside down, a new national consciousness was breaking up the Holy Roman Empire, and the "heresy" of Protestantism was digging in throughout the world. As one of the greatest polemical theologians in his church's history, Jesuit Cardinal Bellarmine...
According to the historians of antiquity, Rome was founded by the brothers Romulus and Remus as a hangout for the delinquent youth of early Iron Age Latium, and was given permanence by the rape of 527 Sabine women. The traditional founding date is April 21, 753 B.C.-but the historians have long been fidgety about the exactness of that anniversary. Last week modern Rome's Department of Antiquities and Fine Arts showed proof that Rome had inhabitants several hundred years before the Romulus mob ever touched a Sabine woman...
Died. Herbert Romulus O'Conor, 63, Maryland Democrat, two-term Governor (1939-47), U.S. Senator (1947-53) who succeeded Estes Kefauver as chairman of the Senate Crime Investigation Committee, hunted Reds in government, the U.N. and the American Bar Association, advocated blackballing lawyers who pleaded the Fifth Amendment, retired from the Senate to campaign against the Truman Administration, which he considered "soft on Communism"; of a heart attack; in Baltimore...