Re: [xmca] 'Summer reading' continued: "Are we Rome?"

Hi,

About Rome.

I just came over (serendipity? - my favourite word this summer) a poem
by Garcia Lorca. In his 'A poet in New York' (1930) I found a small
poem called (in Swedish):

Rop mot Rom - Från tornet av Chrysler Building
(Cry against Rome - from the tower of Chrysler Building)
from 1930.

Interesting that he used 'Rome' when writing about NY

Leif

2007-07-26 kl. 11.45 skrev Eirik Knutsson:

> Or, according to Geir Lundestad, "empire by invitation":
>
> "... if [the] American expansion created what we could call an
> American empire,
> this was to a large extent an empire by invitation. Unlike the Soviet
> Union,
> which frequently had to rely on force to further its interests, the
> United
> States possessed an arsenal of diverse instruments. In fact, the
> United States
> was often invited to play a more active role."
>
> ( http://jpr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/23/3/263 )
>
>
>
>
> On 2007-07-26, at 08:25, Leif Strandberg wrote:
>> E
>>
>> I think we are doing what we can to be a part of Rome ("Legtimate
>> peripheral participation" - see Swedish and Norwegian soliders in the
>> ISAF forces in Afghanistan)
>>
>> I am waitng for a New Martin Luther
>>
>> Leif
>> 2007-07-25 kl. 13.46 skrev Eirik Knutsson:
>>
>>> Leif, if America is Rome: who are we (Europeans) then? "Athenians"...
>>> now
>>> conquered by Rome... (?)
>>>
>>> E.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2007-07-25, at 13:27, Leif Strandberg wrote:
>>>> No, but I have heard about it,
>>>>
>>>> and
>>>>
>>>> I listened to a radio programme the other day where the reporter
>>>> reminded me that Rome lasted for 800 years
>>>>
>>>> :-(
>>>>
>>>> Leif
>>>> Sweden
>>>> 2007-07-25 kl. 12.13 skrev Eirik Knutsson:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Has anybody out there read Cullen Murphy's "Are we Rome?" (Houghton
>>>>> Mifflin,
>>>>> 2007), in which contemporary Washington is compared with ancient
>>>>> Rome?
>>>>>
>>>>> E.
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