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...harmless froth, but what he yearns after is to feed them politics and liberalize their thinking. Scared out of trying by his highbrow, reactionary fiancée, he finally borrows enough gumption from a sympathetic young girl (Jane Wyatt)- incidentally swapping fiancées while crossing his Rubicon...
...shortsightedness of the republican aristocrats and businessmen pushed the plebs and the slaves into the arms of demagogues and military leaders. From 146 B.C., year of the destruction of Carthage, to 49 B.C., when Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon on his way to make himself dictator, the story of Rome is told in terms that should be familiar to everyone who has seen a Hitler and a Mussolini rise to power with the support of the multitudes. Unlike modern precursors and advocates of totalitarianism, the Gracchi, Marius, Mark Antony and Julius Caesar had no great desire to overturn republican institutions...
Coach Hal Ulen's Varsity swimmers will cross the Rubicon tonight, as they meet a strong Brown team in the Crimson's first major test of the current campaign...
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...must never publicly confuse Hitler and our economic failures. If we do we will cross a philosophical Rubicon that will be infinitely harder to recross than a real Rubicon-which has seldom been recrossed...