Word: caesars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CAESAR AT THE RUBICON: A PLAY ABOUT POLITICS, by Theodore H. White. A fine political journalist turns to ancient history for an engaging study of "the way men use other men to reach their goals...
Finally, strapped by a hard-pressed economy, Indonesia has taken the plight of Borobudur to the United Nations, arguing that a "monument to all mankind" is at stake. After a searching survey, UNESCO's Bernard Groslier, conservator of Angkor Wat, and Dutch Hydrologist Caesar Voute have now agreed, and next month will recommend a $3,000,000, seven-year restoration program. Indonesians see prompt UNESCO aid as their only hope. "The balance now is precarious," warns one Indonesian archaeologist. "The walls of Borobudur could fall down today, and they could fall down in 20 years...
...CAESAR AT THE RUBICON: A PLAY ABOUT POLITICS, by Theodore H. White. A fine political journalist turns to ancient history for an engaging study of "the way men use other men to reach their goals...
...Beginning of Doom. Caesar, at 52, is on the Rubicon, with nine years of conquest behind him; Gaul and its three parts, the German barbarians, the Britons, have all been soundly, brilliantly beaten. Now his spies tell him that the Senators in Rome want to get rid of him as soon as the victory parade is over. Caesar is a visionary; they know it and fear him for it. He wants power to establish order, to set up a world republic; the corrupt bosses want to split the spoils he has won so dearly. Question: Should he return to Rome...
...Matter of Trust. In an epilogue, the author specifically attempts to establish Caesar's contemporaneity. "He wrestled with the problems of the cities," writes White. "He cut the relief rolls from 320,000 to 150,000 citizens. . . He tackled credit and restored some commercial stability to the system ravaged by his own wars; put through tax reforms; wrestled with the problems of labor and wages; and began to examine what we today call the problems of urban environment. . . He tried to reorganize the crowded city traffic that choked the streets of Rome, and, of course, like all men dealing...