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...once knew a man who was a heroic drunk. He left mess and destruction in his wake - broken glasses, smashed furniture, bounced checks, bitter and exhausted wives. His motto, which he stole from the British classicist Benjamin Jowett, was a line he would slur grandly to the barroom after 10 or 12 drinks: "Never apologize! Never explain...
...many of the most vital ways, Pusey is still his same old self: The old classicist still peppers his speech with analogies from antiquity--calling the Harvard Corporation the equivalent of the Roman Senate, and the Overseers a modern day "Tribune of Plebes...
Unlike dancemakers who favor the hard-edged, stripped-down contemporary idiom that he crisply dismisses as "technoballet," Wheeldon is an unabashed classicist. His style, a bracingly confident fusion of George Balanchine's structural clarity with the sunny lyricism of Frederick Ashton, is respectful of tradition without stooping to imitation. He's also a sucker for tutus, toe shoes and moonlit pas de deux. "I don't have much angst in me," he says. "I love to be romantic...
Although his garments are less overtly opulent, Robinson too has gained attention as an ardent avoider of fad. A modern, never-staid classicist, he is known for his fine tailoring and use of luxurious fabrics, some of which are his own innovations. "Patrick is much more about style than trend, and the customer appreciates this," explains Nicole Fischelis, vice president and fashion director of Saks Fifth Avenue, which carries Robinson's line. "There is an integrity to his design that's very special...
Henderson explained that the Loeb's current version of Aristophanes "may be a little dated" and that its author, 19th century classicist B.B. Rogers, "was only as Aristophanic as the Victorian Age would allow...