Word: lacedaemonian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...present. So the reader need not be really surprised to find Lycurgus (spelled Ly-kourgos, in the barbarous tradition of contemporary university classics departments), a dim semi-mythological figure, flinging out his arms in V-for-victory signs like General de Gaulle, or to hear members of the Lacedaemonian jet set chatter psychoanalysis, market analysis and Black Panther ideology while they swap wives by the suburban swimming pool...
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