Word: tempora
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Such a book would have two parts: first, it would cry, at length, the ailing cry of the Republic, "O tempora! O mores". Then it would, at length, go earnestly about showing us how to improve both our tempora and our mores. This would be a project no less admirable in our day and no more novel than in Cicero's. And maybe, like Cicero, it would point to happier places and simpler times, not as things to go back to but as suggestions for what we can make of what's before us now. Such a book, I think...
...Tempora! Oh Mores! Regarding your article on the Undergraduate Council's ability to attain quorum: It is bad enough that the president of the U.C. is swearing in official meetings, but do we really have to read this smut on the front page? --Adam L. Cohen...
...living symbols of a culture in decline. Made by Susan and Alan Raymond, who filmed the original, the new documentary lacks the ragged power and immediacy of the series: a studied slickness supplants the prototype's shaky hand-held camera style. But underneath the gloss there is - O tempora, O mores! -another exposé of the Loud family's habitual self-exposure...
...earlier and more decorous age, a crude word-even if uttered by a President-would surely not be deemed fit to print. O tempora, O mores! When Jimmy Carter told a group of Congressmen at a White House dinner last week that if Senator Edward Kennedy runs against him in 1980, "I'll whip his ass," most major news organizations hastened to quote the remark in living off-color...
Mare Millot, owner of the Tempora Restaurant once located on Mt. Auburn St. said last night that high rents also forced him to move from the Square. Millot said that Wasserman purchased the Tempora building early this year and slated it for demolition. He added that he could find no space near the Square at a low enough price...