Word: apollos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Apollo room of the Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg, Va., a group of students from the College of William and Mary met one night in 1776 to form a new fraternity. The fraternity was to be nothing like other roistering student societies of the day. It was to have as its motto the first letters of three Greek words: 3>io(ro(f)la Btou KvfiepvrjTijs ("Love of wisdom the guide of life"). The letters, chosen that night, have remained stamped on U.S. higher education ever since-Phi Beta Kappa...
...this comedy of incident is built the larger and more important comedy of words; poetic dialogue is the main mirth of the play. In provocative contrast, the concluding prose lines suggest both tragedy and the Shakespaere of tragic fruition. "The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo," says philosophic Armado after the women have been called home. "You, that way; we, this...
Local Republicans, frisking about him like cherubs in a progress of Apollo, whisked beaming Bob Taft over to G.O.P. county headquarters. There some 4,000 cheering party workers had stomped through a snowstorm to hear him. Taft gave them a rousing pep talk for the approaching municipal elections. Cried he: "We have the issues and will have them in 1952. I don't know who the presidential candidate will be." The crowd...
...swear by Apollo the physician and by Aesculapius, Hygeia, and Panacea, and I take to witness all the gods, all the goddesses . . ." Beginning with these words, budding doctors for centuries have solemnly taken the ponderous Hippocratic oath-upon graduation. Modern physicians still pledge themselves to "keep [this oath] according to my ability and my judgment...
When he entered the Naval Academy he was 16, and younger than most of his classmates. His grades, mediocre at first, got better every year. The 1916 Lucky Bag (Academy yearbook) said: "Raddy came to us as a child-a pink-cheeked Apollo; since then he has been fooling people." The yearbook entry mentioned Radford's prowess with "drags" (i.e., girls), and sketched a disaster that happened in his second year-"he got a smoking pop with a hop only a week off"-which means that he was disciplined for out-of-bounds smoking and missed a dance...