Word: ovid
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...PLANTATION (217 pp.)-Ovid Williams Pierce-Doubleday...
When a Southern novel rolls off the presses, it is an odds-on bet that it will land either in the dark bog of Gothic violence or in the moonlit magnolia patch. Ovid Williams Pierce's The Plantation does neither; it is a first novel of grace, style and quiet excellence...
...Henning wanted something more. In France he had been impressed by Rodin and Maillol; he had also read the love poems of Ovid. He began to develop a style of his own with small statues of intertwined lovers in clay. He was urged to do major pieces for exhibition. "I don't like exhibitions," grumbled Henning. But he did more figures, and at 44 he let people have a look. The cheers have been ringing in Henning's ears ever since...
Somber in his black coat and stovepipe hat, a tall young man slouched in the saddle one fall afternoon in 1826 while his horse ambled into the little village of Oxford, Ohio. Even as he rode he read, and his saddlebags bulged with volumes of Livy and Horace, Ovid and Xenophon. William Holmes McGuffey, newly appointed professor of ancient languages at Oxford's Miami University, was exactly the type of sobersided teacher the fledgling university wanted. Last week, in a high-ceilinged room of Miami University's Alumni Library, 300 members of the McGuffey Society came to dedicate...
Last week the Lambert Pharmacal Co., makers of Listerine-which contains no citron-reprinted 17 stanzas of Ovid's advice and crowed: "You had the right idea, Ovid, but the wrong remedy." It was a long literary reach, but it undoubtedly trapped some readers who had never read a Listerine ad before...