Word: gibbon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rock scene is an odd setting for a writer whose previous books have tried to bring to life Norman England and Hungary in the 16th century, as well as for a girl who grew up reading Gregory of Tours as a teen-ager and still holds a grudge against Gibbon for leaving the footnotes to Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in Latin. "Call it wish fulfillment" she insists, talking of Cold Iron, "call it fantasy, but don't call it autobiography." The book took a year and a half to write and required 15 new versions. "Writing...
...John H. Gibbon Jr., D.Sc., heart surgeon...
After the fracas in Wall Street the week before, last week's show of force by the hardhats remained free of violence-but only barely. During one parade on the Avenue of the Americas, Ironworker Thomas Francis Gibbon, 43, waded into a crowd on the sidewalk when he saw some onlookers flashing the V peace sign. Gibbon grabbed his crowbar from his side and shouted: "You goddam Commie bastards!" Brandishing the crowbar, he advanced on one man in a business suit, who chose to retreat. "You goddam coward!" Gibbon yelled after him. "You don't know what...
...Utopian change. That is one reason, no doubt, why the revisionists - with the ex ception of Moore - have not written works equal to the best of the consensus school. It seems to be true that conservatives - men with a fondness for the past - write the better history; witness Gibbon, Spengler, Henry Adams. The revisionists have a valid point: If the past is not usable, then what is its value...
...been generations since Gibbon's masterpiece was regarded as definitive. The Greek scholar Richard Person once wittily observed: "Nor does his humanity ever slumber unless when women are ravished or the Christians persecuted." Today's scholars are more likely to complain that Gibbon was weak on the Byzantine and that he was most responsive to Romans like the Augustans, who resembled himself: "Urbane, accomplished, and occasionally a trifle pompous," as Peter Quennell put it in a Gibbon profile. Despite his limits, unpredictably, erratically, marvelously, Gibbon and Rome did go together. "Gibbon is a kind of bridge," Thomas Carlyle...