Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Beginning Now and Henceforth," run by George B. Field, Willson Professor of Astronomy, followed by "Women and Work: The Interactive Relationship," with a variety of Radcliffe administrators on Thursday; Friday's tidbits might include "The French Revolution: The Language of Violence," monitored by Franklin L. Ford, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and then "Nuclear Promises and Problems," with Nicholaas Bloembergen, Gerhard Gade University Professor; and finally on Saturday one could finish up with "Biomolecular Processes," with Walter Gilbert, professor of biology and "Challenges to Legal Education," with Albert M. Sacks, professor...
...first and highest form of the state and of the government and of the law is that in which there prevails most widely the ancient saying, that "Friends have all things in common...
From the time of the ancient Greeks, philosophers, politicians and just plain folk have debated the best form of society and the proper role of the state in the lives of its people. For more than a century, advocates of collective ownership and strong government control of the economy have marched under the banner of socialism. Those who champion private property, individual initiative and the pursuit of profit are in the capitalist camp...
...woman and damn few men; he who rides a tiger must never get off; and, as the title indicates, he who sees the last blossom on the plum tree must pick it. Shakespeare was more succinct: ripeness is all, and so it proves with Emily. After meeting Carlo's ancient father, she is momentarily ( transformed into a radiant ideal: "beautiful, charming, intelligent, loving, and the perfect future Principessa Pontevecchio." Irma is another matter: abandoned by Charlie, she becomes one more foolish dowager in the tow of her parasitic heir. But these are merely the bones of the book. Astor...
...change base metals into gold and silver. More broadly, it embraced astrology and occult religion, being founded on the picture of a fourelement universe (air, water, fire and earth) proposed by Empedocles in the 5th century B.C. There was an early link between alchemy, technology and art, since ancient glassblowers and metalworkers were always trying to make base stuff look like gold and silver. Over the centuries, alchemy gave painters, notably Hieronymus Bosch, a rich vein of fantasy to tap, partly because its metaphors of change, duality and syncretism lay close to their own creative processes...