Word: aesop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Aesop said, "its easy to be brave from a safe distance." He was right. For now we continue to debate ROTC on campus and pontificate about military policy. But there's a big world out there full of sacrificing men and women who could teach us a thing or two. Let's open our eyes and ears to them for a change. And let's bring ROTC back to campus with a bit of humility...
...years later, Nas blesses us with his masterful Illmatic, which includes his own ode to "Represent"-ing, held by some as the best track on the album. This Nas story by Aesop begins: "Straight up sh*t is real and any day can be your last in the jungle/get murdered on the humble guns'll blast n*ggas tumble." The next year, Nas' Queensbridge cohorts Mobb Deep commence their foremost LP with the line: "I keep it real pack the steel hold my nine...
...grind of errands and ambition seem likedeath. In one of his most priceless prose poems,"The Wolf and the Sheep," Herbert has the wolfexplain to the sheep that he is about to devourthat, "You have no idea how silly it is to be abad wolf. Were it not for Aesop, we would sit onour hind legs and gaze at the sunset. I like to dothis very much." After this irony, Herbertcompounds the effect with a ladder which we allought to climb and then kick out from beneath us:"Don't follow the wolf, dear children. Don'tsacrifice yourselves...
This joke, told in Abbas Kiarostami's luminous Taste of Cherry, hints at the spirit of Iran's vital new cinema: knowing, poignant, as simple and universally significant as an Aesop fable. Kiarostami, who is Iran's leading director (Through the Olive Trees) and screenwriter (The White Balloon), tells his tales with the grace and gravity of a wise old man in a village square. Taste of Cherry, which won the top prize at Cannes last year, is the finest of his shaggy-man stories...
...really like the way she fills out her sweater," yet the contemplation for September 29, regarding competitiveness in fatherhood, is "guys are at peace with simply being one face in the crowd of...fathers." The variety of sources quoted is impressive, ranging from Aristotle to Aristotle Onassis, Aesop to Abe Lincoln, Gloria Steinham to Gertrude Stein--even Woody Allen to a fortune cookie...