Word: erasmus
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...facto legality of marijuana and other soft drugs is a vivid example of what Erasmus University Sociologist Jan van Doorn calls the Dutch practice of "repressive tolerance." He argues that much of the country's leniency is actually "tactical," in that it is aimed at isolating and controlling a problem "under supervision of the authorities." The technique has long been used in the Netherlands. As Van Doorn explains, "Allow open prostitution, but limit it to certain neighborhoods, that is, the notorious walletjes ((red- light districts)) in Amsterdam and other cities." Similarly, the sale of soft drugs is condoned at certain...
More's writing expressed the agonized self-contradiction of an up-to-date careerist pursued by ancient demons. Marius rates him as "the greatest English storyteller between Chaucer and Shakespeare." The wit and irony that would soon mark the best Elizabethan playwrights already distinguished More. Like his friend Erasmus, More revered classical Greece. His masterpiece, Utopia (1516), a fantasy of the ideal commonwealth, imagined human beings so perfectly ruled by logic that they were happy to own no property and to labor modestly and endlessly for the common good...
...Lady with an Ermine. If one could not deduce from his work that Holbein's was one of the best minds of the northern Renaissance, the names of his friends would suggest it: he was on terms of familiar equality with such heroes of intellectual life as Erasmus and Sir Thomas More...
...miscellany of letters from Napoleon, Copernicus, Erasmus, Rossini, Queen Christina of Sweden and Mary Queen of Scots. Not included is the legendary erotica collection widely rumored to be hidden somewhere in the Vatican Archives...
...Erasmus commission also provided a fascinating summary of what happened to the Muldergate millions. The commission charged that some $500,000 kept bobbing up in various bank accounts belonging to Rhoodie and two of his brothers; Rhoodie's salary as a senior civil servant never exceeded $1,350 a month. The commission also declared that $19 million in public funds went to L. Van Zyl Alberts, the publisher of a newspaper and a magazine that were, in reality, secretly funded government publications; the report implies that the publisher's use of the money points "to theft and fraud...