Word: aesop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large or small. It's the old story of the cicada who sings all summer and the ant who works all summer. The same old corn we have all heard during our childhood. But the old corn is true to life and the reason for the "moral" with which Aesop ended all his fables. There is a great deal more satisfaction in actually doing something than there is in just admiring something someone else has done. Everyone has heard of Rembrandt, but who knows or cares about John Jones, who spends crates of crud to cross the ocean and gaze...
...Aesop's Fables Coloring Book, Dover...
...South Vietnamese are of goodwill, Ambassador Xuan Thuy told The New York Times, "we can settle immediately, but without goodwill, we can do nothing." His words bring to mind the "Eagle and the Fox" by the ancient Greek slave Aesop. The eagle had pledged to be friends with the fox. But one day, while it was away hunting, the eagle abducted the fox's cubs to feed to her hungry eaglets. The fox was unable to take revenge until a burning entrail, which the eagle had brought home from a sacrificial altar, set her nest on fire. As the eaglets...
Orwell himself was just such an elusive creature. He was a great political journalist, the disquieting conscience of socialism during the '30s and '40s, and finally, a marvelous sort of intellectual Aesop (Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four). A description he wrote of Dickens fits Orwell just as well: "A free intelligence, a type hated with equal hatred by all the smelly little orthodoxies which are now contending for our souls...
Died. Bill Stern, 64, the sportscaster whose fanciful anecdotes ("And that little Italian boy with the baseball bat is now the Pope") earned him the nickname "Aesop of the Airways"; of a heart attack; in Rye, N.Y. A 1935 auto accident cost him a leg and made him a "legal" morphine addict for nearly 20 years, but Stern climbed to the top in radio and then TV sports coverage. His career crumbled when he suffered a nervous breakdown on the air while broadcasting the 1956 Sugar Bowl game for ABC-TV. He then kicked drugs and made a comeback...