Word: laocoon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Elmwood because his father taught school there; it was after his father, Don Carlos Taft, left Elmwood to be professor of geology at the University of Illinois, that young Lorado gave precocious and legendary birth to his interest in sculpture. A crate containing a cast of the snake-grappled Laocoon Group came to the university. Dismayed to find that the art object had been smashed in transit, 12-year-old Lorado who had accompanied his father to superintend the uncrating, seized the fragments and fitted them cleverly into their proper places, a feat his father had been unable to accomplish...
...work of Phidias. If not his, who else could have equaled his genius? seems to be the usual conclusive argument. It is generally granted that Phidias had no equal in his time, that many of the pieces in question are of merit equal to the Apollo Belvidere, the Laocoon, the Torso of the Belvidere...
...Babbitt is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa chapter of the University and is widely known for his position as a scholar not merely of the Romance Languages but of all contemporary literature. He is the author among other books of "The New Laocoon", and "The Masters of French Criticism" and the editor of Taines "Introduction to the History of English Literature...