Word: rubicons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said John Lewis in Pittsburgh: "It was known to us long before the C. I. O. convention was called that the I. L. G. W. U. desired not to cross the Rubicon, all of which is their right and privilege and all of which affects the situation in no manner...
...rest of Welles's story is all Mercury Theatre, but the Mercury Theatre was a lot of things before it became Broadway's wonder child. It was first just an idea, bounded north & south by hope, east & west by nerve. Crossing their Rubicon before they even started to march, Welles & Houseman leased the Comedy Theatre for five years, renamed it the Mercury, then started looking for their first play. When they found Julius Caesar, they started looking for the money to produce it. Houseman combed Wall Street, got dibs & drabs, enough to keep the cast stringing along...
...millionaire Crassus in his net, became with them one of the three rulers of the Roman world. Then he went off to make his military reputation in Gaul and Britain. Returning at the head of a victorious army, he gave the signal for civil war when he crossed the Rubicon and marched on Rome. Crassus was already dead; Pompey died miserably after Caesar's legions tore his army to pieces at Pharsalia. Caesar, "voted" dictator, was king in all but name. And when he fell, four years later, under the daggers of Brutus and Cassius, it was only...
...Nettleton, whose committee spurred Yale to do it, talked delightedly of a faculty "awakened to find itself blessed." The Yale News, which had wanted to do it before, acclaimed "one of the greatest educational advances Yale has ever made." The Alumni Weekly declared that the College had "crossed the Rubicon." What made Yale so happy last week was that the faculty had at last screwed itself up to the point of plumping for "Departmental" examinations like those which Harvard...
Xerxes and Byron had their Hellespont, Moses his Red Sea, and Caesar his Rhine and Rubicon, but none of them showed the ingenuity of the local engineers confronted by King Charles. They could solve their traffic problems and divert traffic from Harvard Square by extending Memorial Drive along the Charles's left bank, but that was too easy. They might well have thrown a bridge across the stream from Gerry's Landing, but that, ah, that was too hard. The bridgebuilders had hydrophobia, a condition unusual in bridgebuilders, and calling for unusual measures. Eureka, they would build the bridge...