Word: classicistic
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...guests at the dinners have heard a wide array of theories and tales beyond the ears of most students and alumni. Classicist Gregory Nagy told legends of the Ad Board, and Thomas C. Schelling addressed the economics of death. Biochemist Mark Ptashne recalled his efforts during the '60s to bring an anti-war resolution before the Faculty, and psychologist R.J. Herrnstein spoke of his battles with the SDS, who occupied his office, claiming his research was racist. Matthew Meselson, also a biochemist, advocated a "Great Books House," where all the residents follow the same freshman year curriculum, and Dean...
What is the best strategy to adopt when the undignified or even incriminating truth comes out? Reactions are always a matter of personal style and self-possession. The possibilities range from stonewalling ("Never apologize, never explain," as the British classicist Benjamin Jowett said) to full disclosure. Within that range there are as many subtle variations as there are shades of the truth...
...Warren is a Rhodes scholar, a classicist, and the South's answer to Robert Frost. He is swapping reunion talk with two other farm hands from central casting, Psychologist Lyle Hicks Lanier and Novelist Andrew Nelson Lytle. These three men are all that is left of a famous band of twelve Southerners, a lot of them poets, a lot of them from Vanderbilt, who 50 years ago published an alternately brilliant and baffling manifesto called I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition...
...depths of the subconscious, and Housman would not apply to it, the work of the mind. His poetry thus remains a chiseled miniaturization, a little too simple, a shade too accessible. Graves persuasively argues that if the scholar and the poet had joined forces, if the homosexual and the classicist had agreed to cooperate, Housman would surely be ranked with such brooding Victorian giants as Matthew Arnold and Thomas Hardy...
...classicizing drift of the early '20s took its most explicit shape in the Three Women at the Spring, 1921. Their dropsical limbs resemble a Pompeian fresco inflated with an air hose, even though the full-size sanguine drawing for the painting, which Picasso kept for himself, has the genuinely classicist air of unforced, continuous modeling...