Word: parnassus
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...Ferrand did not refer to this sort of undergraduate, but rather to those who might be ranked in the Army of the Unemployed. The sinners have salvation in their own hands, but for the plodding saint there is too often only the satisfaction of a fleeting glimpse at Parnassus...
Last week, Predicter Pierce was asked to predict further. Pleased, Predicter Pierce said he would "invoke Parnassus and jostle Jove on high Olympus for insight into the future." Then came his prophecies...
...RISES TO PARNASSUS-Henry Fairfield Osborn-Princeton University Press ($2.50). Ages and ages ago, but eons after primates became distinctly monkeys, apes and men, mankind began his fumbling rise to earthly supremacy. The start was probably on the plateaus of Central Asia and the first men were certainly runners. They hunted to live. Descendants of theirs who wandered into other plateaus of the continents continued the hunting life. Others traveled into forests and became climbers, others into level lowlands and became squatting farmers; others into seashores and became aquatic. Millennia spent in the same sort of places developed distinct types...
...studies in different fields, to fit the art, the music and the literature of a period into a complementary whole, rather than one that might have to be patched together by scraps of old notes and elusive recollections. And Dean Hawkes says out his faith in such glimpsing of Parnassus in his phrase "A student can learn a great deal by sitting two or three times a week at the feet of a master of literature and science, without doing outside reading or other work...
...writing. "Thunder on the Left", his most popular book, won him his reputation as a writer of colorful fantasy. His earlier books, including a number of volumes of familiar essays, grouped under such titles as "Pipefuls". "Shandygaff" and "Plum Pudding", and brief whimsical tales like "The Haunted Bookshop", "Parnassus on Wheels" have won him a large circle of admirers...