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Born not an aristocrat but a stonecutter's son, Socrates was schooled by Sophists (the Leftists of Athens) and was at first a penurious democrat. As he grew more famed, Socrates began to hobnob with aristocrats, took gifts of money from them, became less ascetic, changed wives (from shrewish, lowborn Xanthippe to patrician Myrto). By the time he had passed 50, Socrates was followed by no rabble but by young aristocrats who plotted to overthrow the Athenian democracy...
Curator MacLeish sees that the Fellows get reserved press-box seats at Harvard Stadium games, observes how their eight wives and eleven children bear up under Boston's climate. He also arranges and presides at weekly lively dinners where Fellows hobnob with journalistic guests and Harvard bigwigs, get shaken out of their grooves. Widow Nieman, who had a taste for gin, would have enjoyed the Martinis at these affairs. The Fellows have come to refer to her affectionately as "Aunt Agnes," and Aunt Agnes' Fellows have acquired a free-swinging conversational style under brilliant Archie MacLeish. After...
...Symphony's gain, that the woman's orchestra might look for more subscriptions, bigger patrons this autumn. Flushed with success, many patrons felt that a more dynamic, impressive conductor than Ebba Sundstrom should be billed. As a compromise, they packed her off to Europe to hobnob with composers, improve her languages, acquire polish. Back she came this fall to an orchestra moved into the big Chicago Auditorium, to a board of directors headed by rich and beauteous Mrs. Edward Morris, to the brightest prospect she has ever had. Last week when some 2,000 people poured into...
...Home, Sweet Evalina, If Your Foot Is Pretty, Show It. He toured for a time as cornetist in Pat Gilmore's Band. Then, when middleaged, his Yankee blood asserted itself and he turned to banking. But with all his fine clothes and his fashionable mustachios, he continued to hobnob with musicians, hover around publishing offices. On one such occasion he encountered Stephen Foster who whistled the melody of Old Folks at Home ("Suwannee River") while Bishop set down the notes and scored the simple harmony...
...Grant stands out as less impressive than an ex-slave abolitionist named Douglass, and a crowd of strangers shoulders familiar figures from the scene. If the book has a personal hero, it is Charles Sumner of Massachusetts who talked much of the Negro in the Senate but refused to hobnob socially with him outside. Yet if readers remain immersed in Du Bois's murky history until their eyes have grown accustomed to its gloom, if they are willing to feel their way cautiously through a tangled thicket of quotations and statistics, they are likely to judge Black Reconstruction...