Word: tarpeian
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...early masterpiece of political incorrectness - so offended the plebeians by refusing to flatter and truckle to them (he was supposed to kiss babies and campaign for their approval in order to be ratified as consul) that they mobbed up and came close to throwing him off the Tarpeian Rock. They settled for banishing him from Rome forever. Coriolanus requited their hatred by allying himself with their enemies, the Volschians, and marching on Rome...
...play when Coriolanus has agreed to flatter the masses, he promises, "I'll mountebank their loves." That brings up the subject of William Jefferson Clinton, who is America's outstanding mountebank of love. Much of his own crowd has now turned on Clinton and cast him down from the Tarpeian Rock. Hard to think of Clinton as Coriolanus, of course; the Roman was a man of fierce principle. Clinton is more like Sportin' Life. Our first black president, as Toni Morrison called him, has banished himself to 125th Street, there to condescend to the African-Americans (they...
...sinners who make the best saints. Youth, itself is balance enough. And if it be feared that the University would, free from an artificial mixing within itself, turn into a closed circuit of thought, let it be remembered that, short as was the distance from the Capitol to the Tarpeian Rock, the distance from Widener to the Harvard Square rotunda is no longer. Harvard shows no sign of turning aloof from life...
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