Word: spartacus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tall Thracian named Spartacus, 70 Roman gladiators ran off from their master one night in 73 B. C. Times were restless; a year later Spartacus had a guerrilla army of 100,000, armed with clubs, spears, the tridents of the gladiators' trade...
Arthur Koestler, expatriate German journalist, retells the gladiators' story in an ironical novel which deftly suggests the case of modern Germany, less deftly suggests comparison with the historical novels of Robert Graves (I, Claudius, et al). Spartacus' inspired strategy tied his professional opponents in knots. When bald-pated Clodius Glaber's army penned the rebels up in the crater of Vesuvius, Spartacus lowered his men by ropes over the sheer rock face of the mountain's far side, then wiped out the Roman camp in a night attack...
...City property was communal, money abolished, law-breaking punished with crucifixion. But Utopias under arms are even less durable than Utopias in peace. End of Spartacus' briefly brilliant career came when asthmatic, cynical Marcus Crassus propped up the tottering Roman republic for a few more years by crushing the rebellion. Crassus celebrated his triumphal return by crucifying 6,000 of his captives along the Appian...
...Dartmouth, Harry Jr. roomed off-campus in the same yellowish house as Footballer Phil Spartacus Conti. Tall, slender, dark-haired, quiet, he got "gentle-men's" grades in his studies, became Phi Gamma Delta ping-pong champion, was rated a good beer drinker. Over the mantel in his disorderly room was the legend: "Commend a wedded life but keep thyself a bachelor...
...revolutionary movement, by a young novelist who has come to be regarded as one of the most promising in Spain, and who dedicates his book to the anarchosyndicalists, "dreaming of a strange state of society in which all men are as disinterested as St. Francis of Assisi, bold as Spartacus, and able as Newton and Hegel...