Word: classicist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chance that all men now in College may graduate as a Bachelor of Arts, or at least as a Bachelor of Science who is a scientist . . . . but, regardless of the outcome, the modern student would be as much the loser if he did not hear the classicist's defense of Latin or Greek as the soul of education as if he chose to ignore Plato's theories of government...
...monarchist, classicist France, a few young, unknown romantics such as Victor Hugo took fire from De I'Amour. But it received only two reviews-both of which were written secretly by Stendhal himself. In Germany, the aging Goethe read History of Painting in Italy and Rome, Naples and Florence-the enthusiastic studies of Italian painters and passions signed "M. de Stendhal, former cavalry officer," and remarked appreciatively, "This man knows how to use others with skill." It was an apt remark, for it was Stendhal's habit to lift his material from others' books and then calmly...
...real desire to reform the economy. He is actually an economic classicist. From time to time he has collaborated with revolutionists ("those carrion birds"), but only because he thought he could make use of them. He also collaborated with Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt...
...proudest of seven newly acquired studies by the 19th-Century Frenchman Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, who believed that drawing is seven-eighths of art. His penciled portraits had all the icy perfection, but not the controlled fire of the Renaissance greats. Said Classicist Ingres: "Let us not admire Rembrandt and the others through thick and thin; let us not compare them. . . to the divine Raphael and the Italian School; that would be blaspheming...
While Michelangelo was furiously improving the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel for Pope Julius II, a handful of Papuans were equally hard at work in a New Guinea clubhouse. They fashioned masks 10 feet high out of bark. Each mask represented a mythological spirit, but no Renaissance classicist could have recognized the 100 weird, bearded birds and sharp toothed half-humans who emerged, after ten years of labor, from the clubhouse. And Europeans, who like to think of art as immortal, would have been amazed to see the masks burned (after a month of ceremonial dances) amid the acclamations...