Word: pindaric
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...Edwards (English 276) T.S. Eliot (English 267) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German 120) Nikolai Gogol (Slavic 154) Henrik Ibsen (Scandinavian 1) Immanuel Kant (Philosophy 130) John Keats (English 256) Lucretius (Latin 107a) Thomas Mann (German 285) Michelangelo Buonarroti (Fine Arts 257) John Milton (English 131) Freidrich Nietzsche (Philosophy 235) Pindar (Philosophy 278b) Plato (Classical Philology 236b, Philosophy 102) Aleksander Pushkin (Slavic 152) H.H. Richardson (Fine Arts 274) Rainer Maria Rilke (German 269) Friedrich Schiller (German 113) William Shakespeare (English 124, English 229) Edmund Spenser (English 222) Jonathan Swift (English 247) Terence (Philosophy 265a) Thucydides (Greek 106a) Tibullus (Classinal Philology 261a...
...practice, Classics 206 relies on a couple of textbooks on Greek sports, plus the classics' numerous chorals to coordination, such as Pindar's Odes to victorious athletes or Theocritus' blow-by-blow description of fancy-dan Polydeucus outboxing Heavyweight Amycus, which may well be the origin of a human myth most recently disproved by Sonny Liston...
...carry the ideal of social service too far. Their chief horror is a "marketplace curriculum," in which water polo is as highly regarded as Greek philosophy. "The one student splashes through his courses in a world which has neither historical nor philosophical dimensions--the other clutches his copy of Pindar as he drowns...
...small town. French and resoundingly provincial, Sellers (M. Topaze) teaches in a boys' school. His suits need cleaning but his heart is pure. He sits in drafty garrets quoting Pindar and correcting misspelled words like klock and starz. He believes the aphorisms he daily peddles to the young and pimply minds under his charge: There is no profit in ill-gotten gains, and Work tires no one-what tires is laziness, the mother of all vices, and Alcohol kills more surely than a pistol shot. He is a dedicated teacher who loves his work...
...subjects, who praise his skill and tact. But the last two intellectuals whom he photographed gave him a surprise. At the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J., Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer (posing for Eisie for the sixth time) wrote in the memento book a quotation in Greek from Pindar's Third Pythian Ode: "Dear Soul, do not pursue with too much zeal immortal life, but first exhaust the practical mechanics of living." Next day, at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin North in Wisconsin, the controversial architect took one look at Oppenheimer's inscription, snorted and wrote: "Take...