Word: tempora
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...