Word: augustus
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Well, of course," you say. "Obviously Computer Science 51'S workload levels The Rome of Augustus's into the ground. No wonder the syllabi differ...
...Crossan, Jesus' deification was akin to the worship of Augustus Caesar -- a mixture of myth, propaganda and social convention. It was simply a thing that was done in the ancient Mediterranean world. Christ's pedigree -- his virgin birth in Bethlehem of Judea, home of his reputed ancestor King David -- is retrospective mythmaking by writers who had "already decided on the transcendental importance of the adult Jesus," Crossan says. The journey to Bethlehem from Nazareth, he adds, is "pure fiction, a creation of Luke's own imagination." He speculates that Jesus may not even have been Mary's firstborn and that...
...never-fail first-line test worked just right for Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove (1985), one of the half-dozen or so best novels ever to come out of the American West. Here's how McMurtry started off: "When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake . . ." You can't stop reading there. ". . . not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were having a fine tug-of-war with it, and its rattling days were over...
...keep his hat on? Right away you know he's an Easterner, just as you understand that Call knows what he is talking about. Call is Captain * W.F. Call, onetime Texas Ranger, like Augustus McCrae, his partner in their Hat Creek outfit until McCrae died of stubbornness. Captain Call, getting old but tough as a boot, is a bounty hunter now. He still acts like a Ranger officer, however, and when the assignment comes to deal with the train robber Joey Garza, he wires Pea Eye, another old Ranger. He just assumes that Pea Eye will show...
...next time you find yourself in the midst of some national hysteria, remember the tulip craze that swept Holland three centuries ago, an orgy of panicked financial speculation in which land and houses and gold were all traded for . . . tulips. At the mania's peak, a single Semper Augustus tulip could fetch 20 town houses...