Word: plato
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Plato, Laws...
...scream of jet fighters and the thunder of antiaircraft fire. They felt their hotel shiver in response to the bombs' pounding. But many of the U.S. reporters clustered in Al Kabir Hotel in downtown Tripoli were not quite sure what was actually going on. Like the people in Plato's parable of the cave who can discern reality only from the shadows that a fire throws on the wall, the correspondents could only make informed guesses as to what was happening...
Bonham Carter:"Guilford is more modern, a bit of a rascal; Jane is rather austere, into Greek and Plato. I suppose that there is the temptation to compare them [as] doomed lovers to Romeo and Juliet, although [Jane and Guilford] did have the option to die, whereas Romeo and Juliet were star-crossed lovers...
...England. The catalyst which triggers this series of changes is her growing love for Guilford and her subsequent initiation into womanhood. Even taking into account the self-imposed constraints of cinematic exposition, Jane's blossoming into adulthood occurs far too quickly; on her wedding night, we see her reading Plato in bed, demurely clad in a nightgown that laces up to her chin. The next evening, however, after her first tryst with Guilford, she gaily parades around in front of her husband and the servants dressed in nothing but her shift and bawdily sporting Guilford's great riding boots before...
Revolutions in Science succeeds because Cohen does not belief that science should be regarded only in its own terms. Science is inevitably bound up in other areas of intellectual history. Cohen embellishes his discussion of scientists from Copernicus to Einstein with reference to Thuycidides, Plato, Tacitus, Montaigne, English political history, Renaissance history, Jonathan Swift, Ben Jonson's masques, Rousseau, Voltaire, Samuel Johnson and even the rebel yell of confederate soldiers in the American Civil...