Word: demostheneses
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-Demosthenes
Beyond Moscow. The optimism was nourished by a dazzling display of Soviet amiability (see THE WORLD). Even so seasoned a veteran of diplomatic dealings with the Russians as the U.S.'s Special Envoy W. Averell Harriman was impressed with the signs of thaw. And Harriman, having served as ambassador...
Xenarios, 57, made most of his earlier finds by reading the classics, including Demosthenes' orations and Aristotle, and listening to local folklore in his travels through Greece. Then he became fascinated by references to the Chalcidice peninsula in Strabo's Geography. He was primarily interested in the allusions...
-Demosthenes, 343 B.C.
Ex-Candidate Adlai Stevenson, trying to describe the difference between himself and the man he was introducing, Candidate Jack Kennedy, put it poignantly to an East Los Angeles rally last week: "Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, 'How well he...