ET: It was.
Romans who, against this background, became Epicureans included Cicero's friend Atticus, and Cassius, later an assassin of Caesar. It therefore becomes both easy and attractive to think of Lucretius' turn to Epicureanism as part of a trend among the Roman intelligentsia. Curiously, however, his poem shows few if any signs of contemporary philosophical or scientific engagement. We know a good deal about recent trends in the Epicurean school—for example, its sophisticated debates with the Stoics on scientific method and mathematics—yet we find little or no evidence in Lucretius' poem that he is aware of, let alone engaged in, these developments. And although he includes a number of critiques of anonymous opponents, none of these opponents can plausibly be identified with anyone who lived in the two centuries separating Epicurus' own lifetime from Lucretius', including adherents of the era's most prestigious school, the Stoa. It may, then, be more accurate to think of Lucretius as philosophically isolated, drawing his inspiration from Epicurus' own treasured writings, and for that reason adopting Epicurus' polemical targets as his own.
ET: It was. It was. I mean, all White Houses are dog eat dog worlds. It was a very tense time for the United States with the Vietnam war going on and on.
CrInstructor Manualinal Justice in America, 6th Edition George F. Cole, Christopher E. Solution Manualith Test Bank
Futrell – Fundamentals of Selling – 11e, ISBN 0073381128 Test Bank