Word: pantheons
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...ethics, aesthetics, or politics. What you admire is stoical and certainly imposing, when genuine; but a thousand Combinations of other virtu arise in the world which appeal to me more. At least you select personages as occasional examples of the "highest" character who do not figure in my personal pantheon. But you know what our friend Spinoza says to the effect that Peter's idea of Paul expresses the nature of Peter better than that of Paul; and I see especially in your last pages, that you are a champion of the spirit of your time ("my" time was rather...
...this scene, as in others from Michael Hamburger's Beethoven: Letters, Journals and Conversations (Pantheon; $3.75), the great composer appears as one of the shaggiest two-legged bears of all time. British Author Hamburger contributes nothing that is new; but his neat arrangement of recollections, and some new translations of Beethoven's letters and notebooks, give readers an intimate, cage-side view of the master, if not quite the whole picture...
...Pantheon. Under the sullen October sky, the grass of the infield gleamed, a green patch on the city's blotched and gritty drabness. In the deep rows of private boxes, maintained by Manhattan firms for the pleasure of their customers, and in the special seats reserved for the favored, were the notables, the affluent and the politicians-the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover, ex-President Herbert Hoover, Douglas MacArthur, Margaret Truman and Heavyweight Champion Joe Walcott. Among them sat the aging stars of past series-Rogers Hornsby, Carl Hubbell, Mel Ott, Frankie Frisch-a shadowy, wistful, watching pantheon...
...evening, a voice singing a love song in the street outside inspired him to a love poem of his own-love for God. The poems he went on to write have become classics of mystical poetry. A new edition, published last week, Poems of St. John of the Cross (Pantheon, $2.75), includes the original Spanish, as well as an exceptionally successful English translation by South African Poet Roy Campbell. Sample...
...position "that the holding of a public holiday . . . is not in keeping" with the revering of Lenin. The ukase raised an interesting question: whether Lenin, who used to share joint billing with Joseph Stalin, is now being shunted farther & farther back into a dark corner of the Soviet Pantheon...