Word: classicistic
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...Balanchine's 73rd ballet was a smash success, his 74th two nights later was as close to an unqualified flop as Balanchine ever comes. Bayou, danced to a thin and repetitious suite from Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson's Louisiana Story film score, was simply not Classicist Balanchine's meat. His adventure in Americana was little more than tired cliche...
...newest Pinocchio (Pinoculus this time) sold 6,000 copies in a month, and schoolmasters all over Italy were ordering more. Even the Vatican's top classicist, Monsignor Antonio Bacci, was plugging the book as something that Latin teachers have always neededan easy bridge between grammar and the classics. "Here," said Monsignor Bacci, "at last is something...
Some of the fault was the students', Highet decided, but a lot of it sounded like plain bad teaching. Last week, after chewing the subject over in his own mind for a long time, 44-year-old Classicist Highet published a lively, highly readable book on his own profession, The Art of Teaching (Knopf...
Harvard's Arthur Stanley Pease, 68, a shy, spindly classicist who gave up the presidency of Amherst College in 1932 because he missed teaching, was happiest between semesters wandering about the New England countryside, noting the shrubs and flowers (his Vascular Flora of Coös County, New Hampshire was a minor classic). His plan after he stopped teaching Latin: "Study Latin...
...four present University professorships are held by economist Summer H. Slichter, humanist Ivor A. Richards, classicist Werner Jaeger, and biochemist Edwin H. Cohn...