Word: classicist
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...skating. The kids -- relatively speaking -- took over the men's field four years before they were expected to claim dominance. Lillehammer was heralded as the final showdown among veteran champions. Instead they fell away, and the gold went to Russia's 20-year-old Alexei Urmanov, a fledgling classicist who was not tipped to win anything. The silver skater was an aerial whiz from Canada, Elvis Stojko, 21. Philippe Candeloro, 22, a blithe and showy Frenchman, took the bronze after an incendiary program to Godfather music ended with a fall on a triple Axel near...
Like all artists, athletes can be divided into Romanticists and Classicists. The playing style of the Romanticists is characterized by emotion and imagination and an emphasis on individuality; the play of Classicists is more controlled, more cerebral, more reliant on teamwork. Earl Monroe was a Romanticist; Oscar Robertson a Classicist. Magic Johnson, for all his flair, was a Classicist who controlled the tempo of the game; Julius ("Dr. J") Erving was a Romanticist who played according to his own rhythms. Although he has all the skills and talents of a Classicist, Jordan is a Romanticist. He is a splendid passer...
...French lawyer, poet, classicist and mathematician named Pierre de Fermat declared that such solutions exist only for squares. Raise the exponent to any number higher than 2 -- change the equation to x 7 + y 7 = z 7, for example, or x 12 + y 12 = z 12 -- said Fermat, and no combination of integers will work. "I have found a truly wonderful proof," wrote Fermat in the margin of a book, "which this margin is too small to contain." He lived until 1665 but never did write it down -- evidence, many believe, that he hadn't proved the proposition after...
...reason is that The Greek Miracle is an exercise in political propaganda, and has to embrace stereotypes that no classicist today would accept without deep reservations. First, the exhibit wants to indicate how Greek sculpture changed in the classical period, by showing its movement from the frontal, rigid forms of 6th century B.C. kouroi, whose ancestry lay in Egyptian cult figures, to the more naturalistic treatment of balance and bodily movement one sees in works such as The Kritios Boy (circa 480 B.C.), which was found on the Acropolis. And it demonstrates this in considerable detail, through marvelous examples...
...really an all-around classicist," he says. "She's very able in many areas, and her approach is very different from other members of the department...