Word: demostheneses
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In Classics, Werner W. Jaeger, University Professor, will lecture of "Hymnic Poetry of the Greeks" in Greek 113, although his course on "Demosthenes' Political Orations" will be emitted in the fall.
The lecturer concluded his talk by pointing to five dilapidated chairs lined up on the stage. According to MacKinnon four of these chairs were occupied by Demosthenes. Milton, Beethoven, and Franklin Roosevelt--the fifth could be ours if we would give in and take the $96 course. Then he introduced...
¶ Cicero and Demosthenes were the greatest orators of all time; Truman, in fact, used to try to write his speeches in the style of Cicero, but gave up-he does not say when.
At the end of three days as a witness, Wedemeyer gave the committee a brief, well-put-together lecture on geopolitics. Its thesis: seize the initiative. For his punch lines, he went back to 351 B.C. and a speech by Demosthenes:
Gossip Columnist Walter Winchell is always willing to give a great man his due. Last week he noted that "Demosthenes, apparently, was the W.W. of Athens." A friend of Winchell wrote the columnist that he was now being denounced as a warmonger, just as Demosthenes had been 2,300 years...