Word: classicistic
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...opposition, can be supported by Christian convictions." Some 240 of Cambridge's most distinguished scholars wrote a letter to the Times protesting Eden's intervention. More than 350 dons at Oxford filed a similar protest, but a rival group of 30, led by 90-year-old Greek Classicist Gilbert Murray, supported Eden...
...Gainsborough and Turner. Goya's studio had ten Rembrandt prints, to which Goya freely admitted his debt: "I have had three masters: Velasquez, Rembrandt, and nature." As the pendulum swung from classicism to romanticism in the 19th century, Delacroix seized on Rembrandt to best his classicist rival, Ingres, and wrote: "Perhaps we shall one day find that Rembrandt is a greater painter than Raphael...
...freshmen, has ordered tougher assignments all along the line. Though Notre Dame still offers a degree in physical education, Hesburgh has slashed the number of trade-school courses a student will be allowed to take. He has imported a galaxy of star visiting lecturers-e.g., Historian Arnold Toynbee, Classicist Sir Richard Livingstone, Theologian Martin D'Arcy, S.J., and has given the university an impressive set of stars of its own-e.g., Mathematician Vladimir Seidel, Biochemist Charles E. Brambel, Sculptor Ivan Mestrovic...
...warning to the overeager, Classicist Jotham Johnson of New York University posted a special memo in the classics department last week. "The sordid rumor has been promulgated," he wrote, "that March 15, 1956 is the 2,000th anniversary of those Ides of March on which CJ. Caesar was assassinated. This results from an inaccurate or hasty computation, for March 15, 44 B.C. to March 15, 1 B.C. equals only 43 years; March 15, 1 B.C. to March 15, 1 A.D. equals one year. (There was no zero year.) March 15, 1 A.D. to March 15, 1956 makes a total, then...
...intention, Johnson's calculations struck directly at N.Y.U.'s great rival, Columbia University. There, library officials had already set up a lively exhibition commemorating the 2,000th year of Julius Caesar's death. Now, it seemed, Columbia was commemorating a year too soon. University classicists promptly split on what to do. Scottish Gilbert Highet ("I'm a classicist, not a mathematician") was for calling the whole thing off, but bearded Classicist Moses Hadas favored the exhibition. Meanwhile the university news office, citing the Columbia Encyclopedia, informed reporters that "because of poor time calculation in earlier times...