Word: plato
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fabulous continent described by Plato and early historians as lying outside the Pillars of Herculles (Gibralter) extending far westward, well populated and highly civilized as late as 9558 B.C. From the appearance of lava dredged by cable-layers, some scientists hold that Atlantis did exist (TIME, Feb. 25, 1924), that it was split in two volcanically. the eastern half submerging, peaks of the western half (Antilia) remaining today as the Antilles (West Indies). Alleged cranial similarities between natives of Venezuela and Canary Islanders, also between fossil flors and fauna of France and the U.S., constitute other "evidence...
...Lewis May)-Appleon ($1.50). As one would have guessed, The French psychologist who wrote the first unprejudiced life of Shelley (Ariel*) can conduct a philosophical argument with delicacy, wit and penetration. From his interest in Shelley, one would also have guessed that M. Maurois accepts the latter half of Plato's apothegm: "There are two kinds of causes; one necessary, the other divine," and agrees with Vauvenargues: "Genius depends largely on our passions." The three compact dialogs of the present volume, between a young platonist-aristocrat lieutenant and his old rationalist-radical tutor, run widely and vigorously over...
...English 8 he will deal with English Literature from 1730 to 1785. Comparative Literature 29 will take as its subject Poetics and Literary Criticism. This course deals historically with poetics and literary criticism and includes also direct discussion of various critical topics. Among the authors considered are Plato, Aristotle, Longinus, Dante, Sidney, Dryden, Boileau, Johnson, Coleridge, Wordsworth, SaintBeuve, Arnold, and Pater...
...virginity" of the faculty would be more poignant if it could be "decently lyrical." Perhaps this plaint may sting some "mute inglorious Milton" to verse. After all Homer begged his way through seven cities. The vernal note is again struck in a final celebration of James Christopher Grant reading Plato's "Kriton" to the undulations of his rocking chair. When he gets through with the "Crito" he will have to read the "Apology" and there, alas, the Socratic gadfly is waiting...
...first time that both teams will unquestionably win pennants. James James Carbunkle is heralded as the new basketball captain of Siwash, having served faithfully on the team some eight or ten years. It seems that Harvard is not going to build Finnish or Turkish baths on Soldiers Field. E. Plato Ward, an American, is accredited with having won the annual Parisian cross country race, through the Bois and back to Zellies...