Word: apothegms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Christian traditions in a personal affront appear most strange to me. I would rather offer the above cited proverb as an explanation of the affair and use this opportunity to express gratitude to the University for its unwarranted and perennial gentility. And while speaking of ancient traditions, the following apothegm of St. Macarios of Egypt (end of 4th century) is perhaps appropriate: "A bad word makes even good men bad, but it good word makes even bad men good." Fr. Mamas Holy Transfiguration Monastery
Pritchett is a master of the casual apothegm. He accounts for Max Beerbohm's cultivated eccentricities by noting the "foreign strain" in his parentage: "Expatriation allows one to drop a lot of unwanted moral luggage, lets talent travel lightly and opens it to the histrionic." He speculates on the Edwardians' taste for the novels of George Meredith, for satire and high comedy: "One can see why: an age of surfeit had arrived. The lives of the upper classes were both enlivened and desiccated by what seems to have been a continuous diet of lobster and champagne-a diet...