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Windbag Demosthenes denounced this Philip with his mad scheme of a pan-Hellenic united front. ". . . Philip--a man who not only is no Greek, and no way akin to the Greeks, but is not even a barbarian from a respectable country--no, a pestilent fellow of Macedon, a country from which we never even get a decent slave..." In 338 B.C., however, at the battle of Chaeronea, Philip whipped the Athenians and gave them peace on astonishingly lenient terms. He became captain-general for the war against Persia...
...uncovered by restorers from the Fogg, somewhat in the manner of a repainted old masterpieces, and now resumes its former importance. The paintings cover the two middle panels, both done in dark colors, much in the manner of a gloomy mid-Victorian picture. The top panel shows a bird, akin to a seagull, in the process of swallowing a fish, while the bottom one depicts a turtle resting on a half-submerged...
Last week in Princeton Dr. Jepsen pronounced the bones to be those of a leaping primate the size of a rat and structurally akin to the modern lemur, which lived in the Paleocene epoch of 60,000,000 years ago. Only a few toes were missing. So far as the paleontologist knew it was the most complete Paleocene skeleton of any sort ever recovered. Preserved even was a hyoid bone which served to support chin and jaw muscles. This bone was an eighth of an inch long, no thicker than a horsehair. Dr. Jepsen could assign no certain reason...
...There they remained jobless, finally had to work their way back South. But Handy's ambition persisted. By 1903 he had a nine-piece band of his own, went around playing for dances. Slowly it dawned on him that the music which went best was mournful and repetitious, akin to the way Negroes had long sung of their troubles...
...know what struggles and disappointments I have gone through. There are healed wounds which sometimes open . . . the past returns and tears them. It was in one of these moments that Gloomy Sunday was born. I cried all the disappointments of my heart into this song, and people with feelings akin found their own hurt in it. That is how I account for it becoming a "deathly song"-because disappointment and suffering are felt by everyone alike. If the songs which burst from my heart will not be chosen by suicides as their "death march," but by those who seek balm...