Word: epical
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With those casual words to his disciples in the. year 399 B.C., Socrates went off to face the grave charges .that a disgruntled poet had brought against him: corrupting the youth of ancient Athens, impiety and practicing "religious novelties." The ensuing trial is still remembered as an epic defense of free speech and individual liberty, largely because of Plato's detailed account of it. But the trial site itself has long eluded archaeologists. Now, after nearly a century of digging in the heart of Athens, the search may finally be over...
...Money. TWA was waiting with a considerably lower amount: $100,750 in cash (all that two nearby banks could give TWA) in a canvas bag. Captain Billy Williams, 46, TWA's senior international pilot, carried the money onto the plane. Williams, the hero of last October's epic California-to-Italy skyjacking, had once again volunteered to fly a hijacker abroad if necessary, since neither of the 727's two pilots was internationally qualified. A professional through and through, Williams is noted for keeping cool under pressure. Says TWA Captain Richard Hastings, who flew copilot on last...
...UNTITLED EPIC POEM ON THE HISTORY OF INDUSTRIALIZATION by R. Buckminster Fuller. 240 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...hysterical optimism of Unfilled Epic imparts the uneasy feeling that Fuller's last clear year is 1940, and indeed that is the last year analyzed in this "futuristic" poem. "The only difference between the face of the earth today and millions of years ago," he writes "when all the elements also existed, but as seemingly static resources, is the harnessing of energy...
...vain coquette who is first delighted with her body when it attracts the King, then distressed and finally destroyed by it when, as Queen, she fails to produce the necessary male heir. Her doomed wail, "Oh my God, the King is mad!" almost redeems the whole overblown epic. Yet it is Bujold's very sexuality that makes her question the validity of her role as a chaste but tantalizing nymphet in the early scenes. "I don't believe that a girl like Anne Boleyn and a man like Henry can be all that time without touching each other...