Word: aeneid
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...slogan will appear on T-shirts marking Radcliffe's 100th anniversary. It is a paraphrase of the opening words of Virgil's "Aeneid," "Of arms and the man I sing...
...text of Les Troyens was drawn from Virgil's Aeneid by Berlioz himself. It is an Iliadic arch that spans the siege of Troy, the death of the Trojan women and Aeneas' departure to establish Rome. Indisputably the most epic of all grand operas, it has not yet achieved the popularity of Boris Godunov or Otello, but it is on its way. Britain's Covent Garden has successfully done it twice. The earlier English production, in 1957, was the first full staging in a single evening that even approximated the composer's original intentions. (Berlioz broke...
...line of Virgil's Aeneid occurs to me. It is from Aeneas' account of the fall of Troy: Jam proximus ardet Ucalegon ! (Close by, Ucalegon's house is already ablaze!) When I contemplate the festival of the oppressed and exploited of South Africa, I shudder at the complacency and mystifications of all the Kennans...
...General Education is now going out of favor. The emphasis on science following the first. Sputnik was the first blow to the idea that the well-educated man is one who has read the Iliad, the Aeneid, and the Inferno. In 1966, Daniel Bell, Professor of Sociology, issued a critical re-appraisal of the Gen Ed concept, in a study commissioned by Columbia University, which was redesigning its General Education program. Since then, Gen Ed has become an increasingly unpopular idea, subjected to more and more criticism of its basic philosophy...
Died. Rolfe Humphries, 74, translator and poet whose renderings of the classics (notably Virgil's Aeneid and Ovid's The Art of Love) won acclaim; of diverticulitis; in Redwood City, Calif. Humphries' translations combined the best qualities of scholar and poet: a rare sense of artistry, humor and language; his own poetry was less well received by critics, though readers enjoyed such quiet poems as "No Enemy...