Word: delphi
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According to the Apology, Socrates admitted that a guilty verdict "was not a surprise." Why so? Stone concludes that the sage, tired of life, did not wish vindication and went out of his way to antagonize the jury. Among other things, Socrates boasted that the oracle at Delphi had said of him, "No man was more free than I, or more just, or more prudent." As Stone comments, "Socrates looks more like a picador enraging a bull than a defendant trying to mollify a jury...
...have to go the Oracle of Delphi and sacrifice three vestal virgins for new shirts, and five if we want to choose the color," Gaffney adds. "It's not worth it." (Neither "the people who run the intramurals" nor the oracle was available for comment at the time this article went to press...
These discussion groups, which have the flavor of electronic town meetings, are by far the most popular features on the two biggest networks, CompuServe (272,000 subscribers) and the Source (70,000). Their success has spawned a new crop of conference-oriented services that include BIX, Delphi, GEnie, Unison and the WELL. Hundreds of SIGs (special-interest groups) have sprung up on these networks, organized around topics ranging from science fiction to organic farming. The discussions are freewheeling and spontaneous, and the quality of the information, especially in technical matters, is often first rate. In discussing the merits of specific...
...which saves those who are in a rush to hit the beach the necessity of having to read the breezy text or the cute but helpful marginal annotations. Although the Fisher European tour whirls through 18 countries, it is often finely detailed, right down to the best restaurant in Delphi (Grigoris) and the best attraction in Oslo (Vigeland Sculptures, Frogner Park...
...Kate is skeptical, impatient, ambitious and confident: she seems the perfect antagonist for the institution she takes on in this, the sixth Cross book. The Harvard that appears in Death in a Tenured Position is big, smug, successful and emphatically male--a sort of hybrid of the oracle of Delphi and the balcony men's room at the Boston Garden. Its entrenched inhabitants greet change with affection usually reserved for sneezing leprosy victims...