Word: plato
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WASHINGTON: We have contact. Monica Lewinsky's new lawyers, it emerged late Wednesday, have already made overtures to Ken Starr's office -- and an immunity deal for the former intern may not be far behind. Plato Cacheris and Jacob Stein paid the prosecutor a courtesy call hours before the news broke that Lewinsky had hired them, ostensibly to make a clean break with the Ginsburg regime. Starr, it seems, was pleased with the tribute. Where immunity was concerned, his spokesman said, "the door is open...
WASHINGTON: Monica Lewinsky and William Ginsburg are a team no more. The ingenue of the Clinton scandal has dismissed her godfather in favor of two high-powered Washington pros: Jacob Stein, a former independent prosecutor, and Plato Cacheris, who represented Iran-Contra figure Fawn Hall...
...armedservices, Harvard called back retired professorslike Professor McIlwain, who taught politicaltheory with great relish, and Professor Merriman,a passionate devotee of English history. Mostintimidating was Professor William YandellElliott, who shuttled back and forth to Washingtonas adviser to former presidents Roosevelt andTruman. Philosophy Professor Demos, who introducedme to Plato and Aristotle, seemed to be kin to theGreek philosophers. My favorite was the younginstructor Louis Hartz, who later became a fullprofessor of government. From him I learned aboutthe theory of democracy, which has stood me ingood stead as a life-long liberal...
Only last weekend I was characterized (good-naturedly) as someone who would like to have lived a century or two ago. I suppose that comports with my acknowledged contrarian sympathies, though it is not simply correct. I probably appreciate the alien world revealed in Plato's dialogues and Jane Austen's novels more than most others do. But it is because of this appreciation, not in spite of it, that I also probably appreciate our world and the possibilities of it more than most other...
...Gurion ached to be an intellectual; during the most dramatic years of his leadership, he gulped philosophy books, commented on the Bible, flirted with Buddhism, even taught himself ancient Greek in order to read Plato in the original; he had a relentless curiosity about the natural sciences (but no taste for fiction or the fine arts). He would quote Spinoza as if throwing rocks at a rival. Verbal battle, not dialogue, was his habitual mode of communication. Rather than a philosopher, he was a walking exclamation mark, a tight, craggy man with a halo of silvery hair and a jawbone...