Word: unequalled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spartacus, hailed by Plutarch as a man "in understanding and gentleness superior to his condition," was the leader of a band of 78 slaves who in the year 73 B.C. escaped from a training school for gladiators at Capua, 130 miles south of Rome. Eluding the Roman garrison, the gladiators...
An engineer who never works at his profession, Kavalerov's pal Ivan has taken to haranguing crowds in beer halls, excoriating the regime for destroying human feelings. Picked up and questioned by the GPU, he proclaims: "I believe that many human feelings are scheduled for liquidation." The interrogator: "Such...
FOREIGN POLICY : "American leaders,both political and intellectual, are searching desperately for means of 'appeasing' or 'accommodating' the Soviet Union . . . The American people are being told that, however valuable their freedom may be, it is even more important to live. A craven fear of death is...
At week's end, the government had 100,000 men under arms to keep internal peace. This was almost half the size of the entire force mustered by South Africa for service in World War II. It seemed a fair measure of the cost, in time, money and peace...
His talents are more or less unequal to his ambitions in every respect. His pseudo-Congreve is often pretty good--it is certainly one of the chief pleasures the play provides--but it often sounds self-conscious and sometimes resembles a parody of a bad historical novel. (A line like...