Word: modern
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Unfortunately, the price of applying Stone's journalistic skills to the great texts was a lack of philosophical insight. Treating the ancient texts like modern-day government documents, Stone doesn't seem to have been interested in grappling with the secondary literature written on Plato and Socrates during the past millenia or two. Most egregious of all is his failure to deal with the controversial interpretations made by the man most responsible for the renaissance of classical studies in recent years...
...embodied in the literal meaning of the word: one truth. It should be a place where a few stout-hearted Socratic souls doggedly pursue Truth, without having to look over their shoulders worrying about what "the many" think of their efforts. Pre-professionals need not apply. The dissolution of modern American higher education into multiversities catering to the needs and demands of mass democracy is the great crime of something known as "the sixties...
...your left" he announced, "is the Labatt's plant. Makes the best beer in Canada. On your right, notice the Marriott hotel. A fine example of modern architecture...
That more cheerful view of growing old is gaining currency mainly because of the rapidly expanding scientific discipline of gerontology. Modern studies of the aging process involve everyone from laboratory researchers examining brain tissue to nutritionists interviewing nonagenarians to physicians specializing | in treating the elderly. The goal of gerontology is not to extend the upper limit of human life -- now about 115 to 120 years of age -- but to make the lives of the elderly less burdensome physically and more rewarding emotionally. "The new focus," says Dr. John Rowe, director of the division on aging at Harvard Medical School...
...Lions reestablished dominion in their den, yielding only a combined eight points to their next three Crimson opponents. Though Columbia was virtually assured of victory after posting a 22-3 lead, it was humbled somewhat by Harvard Co-Captain Pete Holmes, a modern-day wrestling Daniel...