Word: aeneid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robert Lowell, the second-generation Fugitive, added some humor to the meeting with his "Falling Asleep over the Aeneid," read after a brief exchange with Tate. "When 'Cal' first appeared in Tennessee," Tate reminisced of Lowell, "he thought a mule was a donkey." Lowell pointed his finger at him and charged, "When I first appeared in Tennessee, you thought Emerson was a mule." When the applause and laughter at this remark had died down, Tate looked up quietly and said, "I still...
Joseph and other sub-freshmen were examined orally by Tutor Remington and assigned a passage from the Aeneid, on which they had one week to write a theme. A week later, Vice-President Willard found Joseph's paper acceptable and admitted him, saying to the Judge, "Your Son is now one of us, and he is wellcom...
...harking back nostalgically to the rustic, roughhewn virtues of the Romans who fought the Punic Wars, while themselves breathing the elegant, enervating and sometimes fetid air of imperial Rome. They tended to polish more than to publish. Only Vergil attempted the epic, and he thought so poorly of The Aeneid that on his deathbed he asked to destroy the manuscript. Catullus, Propertius and Tibullus were ravaged by hard-boiled mistresses, and their poems tell of virtually the only battle they ever fought-the war between the sexes. They knew or sensed that their culture was on its long...
...sing of arms and the man," wrote Virgil rather pointedly in The Aeneid. It remained for World War II to spawn the bards of basic training camps, staging areas, supply depots and paper-shuffling rear echelons. These latter-day laureates all agree that war gets funnier and funnier in direct proportion to its distance from the firing line, and sometimes prove it, e.g., See Here, Private Hargrove, Mister Roberts, No Time for Sergeants. Though it works harder for its laughs and gets fewer of them, Don't Go Near the Water may enjoy a like success. A Book...
...Sheldonian Theatre to receive his degree. Public Orator T. F. Higham, in stately Latin (Truman was furnished a pony in advance), praised the ex-President for the Berlin airlift, the North Atlantic Treaty, "the initiative he took in defending Korea." Higham drew academic giggles with a parody on the Aeneid that recalled Truman's 1948 upset victory over Dewey: "Heu vatum igname mentes! Quid vota repulsum, quid promissa iuvant? Tua quid praesagia, Gallup?" (Carefree translation: The seers saw not your defeat, poor soul-vain prayers, vain promises, vain Gallup poll!) Lauding his modesty, Higham quoted Truman's supposed...