Word: ovide
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three second-half touchdowns by the Crimson turned a 7-3 halftime deficit into a 24-19 triumph, as Harvard quarterback Larry Brown, the architect of an offensive metamorphosis over which Ovid himself would have drooled, led the gridders to their first Ivy League win of the season...
Five hundred years later, the press is still in the classics business; Ovid's Ars Amatoria, Book I, for example, is a recent offering. But the Oxford imprint now spans all of human knowledge, from the longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary (floccinaucinihilipilification, the act of estimating as worthless) to tomes as obscure as Zoologist Arthur Young's Anatomy of the Nervous System of Octopus Vulgaris, which sells 15 copies a year. The largest academic press in the world, Oxford has 3,000 staffers working in Britain and in 23 overseas branches from New York to Nigeria...
...also obliterated any notion of socialist realism, as practiced?however fitfully?in Russia. There are no sweating boatmen by the rivers. Not even a dirty shirt in view. Everything is swept, ordered, prosperous. The happy people of Huhsien county are the last Arcadians. Socialism, as it were, equals Ovid plus electricity. Their sacks of grain bulge like the bellies of good-luck gods. Every bulb of garlic in their fields is the size of a baby's head. Each melon and gourd displays, in its massive and purposeful rotundity, the benefits of collective selfcriticism. Like the bulbous backside...
Indeed, autumn deserves a hymn-and it has received far less tribute than it deserves. True, some mixed notices have come in over the centuries. Horace slandered autumn as a "dread" period-"harvest-season of the Goddess of Death." He was dead wrong, of course, for as Ovid noted, once he got his mind off sex, autumn is "cum formossisimus annus"-"the fairest season of the year." Had he lived a little later, Horace might have found out from the U.S. Census Bureau that the death rate is usually lower in autumn than in winter and spring. Why? Science doesn...
Throughout the six-day convention, competition for ten coveted rosettes was, ipso facto, difficult indeed. Contenders in the Pentathlon had to work against the clock in proving to a computer their mastery of mythology, grammar and history. Nearby classrooms resounded to the ring of Ovid and Livy as the oratorical-minded -swathed in togas-declaimed before judges. Other judges trod carefully past papier-mache Pantheons and temples and an intricate mosaic depicting Medea fleeing to Athens, constructed from rice, grits and glue by a Tennessee contestant...