Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Freckled, red-haired Tom Jefferson was originally tutored, along with his older sisters and Randolph cousins, in a one-room building on the Randolph estate. When he was nine, he began studying Greek, Latin and French, and at 14 he luckily fell under the tutelage of an excellent classicist, the Reverend James Maury. Even at that early age, this somewhat aloof intellectual was what he himself calls "a hard student," and his long hours and rigid selfdiscipline are legendary among his friends. Today, winter as well as summer, he bathes his feet in cold water every morning, a regimen...
...Virginian, Jefferson, 33, shares with other wealthy tobacco planters a love of good food, good wine and fast horses. Unlike most of his neighbors in the Piedmont or Tidewater, however, Jefferson has been a lifelong student of natural philosophy and the arts, a man who reads easily in Greek, Latin, French and Italian, and who, when he can, still practices three hours a day on the violin...
...meandered from Charles Town, South Carolina, to Jacksonburg, Florida, and back to Savannah, Georgia, with a number of exploratory side trips in between. Although the scientific descriptions in his journals can make for dull reading-some entries are mere lists of as many as 57 plants with Latin names-Bartram brings to his work keen powers of observation as well as a poetic, almost rhapsodic sensibility. When he sees a wild turkey, for example, he writes that it is "a stately beautiful bird, of a very dark dusky brown colour ... edged with a copper colour, which in a certain exposure...
...quality of education offered by the college has also greatly improved. To the traditional curriculum of Latin, Greek, theology, mathematics and natural and moral philosophy, Witherspoon has added studies in history, geography and the French and English languages. Bringing several hundred books of his own from Scotland, he has increased the college library to some 2,000 volumes. He has also enlarged the college's stock of scientific apparatus, most notably by persuading the celebrated astronomer David Rittenhouse to sell the college his famous orrery for ?417. Ever since the orrery was installed in Nassau Hall in 1771, students...
...himself an anthology of ambiguity. Biographer Frank McShane, Professor of creative writing at Columbia University, offers sheaves of contradictions from Raymond Chandler's long but unprolific career. His colloquial American fiction was written by a snob trained in an English public school and weaned on Latin and Greek. The disabuse Marlowe was the polar opposite of his creator, a sentimentalist who liked to write doggerel about "brief butterfly hours." Marlowe was surrounded by young ladies of wondrously easy virtue; Chandler adored his mother and married a woman 20 years his senior. Marlowe never had a pedestrian afternoon; Chandler...