Word: demostheneses
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The world gets nostalgic for great men. Plutarch felt similarly wistful around A.D. 100, when he wrote his wonderful Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans--shrewd side-by-side comparative biographies of dozens of bygone political characters: Demosthenes and Cicero, for example, Caesar and Alexander.
It appears that General Clark is beginning to figure out the politics business. He used the flag bit at every opportunity last week, and his audience cheered each time. This is not to say that he has become Demosthenes on the stump. He wanders through his speech, taking obscure and...
And certainly not as determined and multifaceted as he was. To overcome his stammer, he talked with pebbles in his mouth ("like Demosthenes") and joined his high school debating team. Also a track star, he won a scholarship to Harvard.
At the moment, opponents of the amendment, like port-addicted Democratic Senator Robert C. Byrd, can defend their tenuous position only by offering silly one-liners ("It's a quack pill") and obscure metaphors ("It's as poisonous as the poison that Hannibal carried in his ring or Demosthenes carried...
Latinos, African Americans and Asians are at much greater risk than Caucasians of developing a severe case. "We don't know why," says Dr. Demosthenes Pappagianis, a professor of microbiology at the University of California at Davis, "and it is a very important question because it goes to the ability...