Word: plato
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When Dante Alighieri compiled his great medieval Who's Who of heroes and villains, the Divine Comedy, the highest a non-Christian could climb was Limbo. Ancient pagans had to be virtuous indeed to warrant inclusion: the residents included Homer, Caesar, Plato and Dante's guide, Vergil. But perhaps the most surprising entry in Dante's catalog of "great-hearted souls" was a figure "solitary, set apart...
...Harvard, these crusty Eurocentrists finger Foreign Cultures and its thriving colonies in Historical Studies and Literature and Arts. Harvard students need not read Plato, Shakespeare or Locke to graduate--in fact, chances are they won't. As the Goths conquered Rome, they say, so multiculturalism has sacked Harvard's liberal arts requirements...
...equally comfortable with Plato, Aristotle, de Tocqueville, Marx and Weber as with Chinese thinkers," said Professor of History Andrew D. Gordon '74, director of the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies...
Papandreou humbly refused to discuss implementation details. He avoids the petty praise of his policy decisions while in office, as per other politicians. Instead, he spoke of a vision that resonates with Plato's theory of the form. The impetus behind this drive was catalyzed by "the earthquake relief aid that we sent to Turkey," said Papandreou. "My telephone lines got jammed. People from all over Greece were calling to ask where they could send monetary help, food and how to even volunteer to go to the damaged region...
...Spike Lee movie you can barely see the characters behind all the editorial placards. Da boys in this hood hang out under a big sign reading DEAD END. Vinny the hairdresser (John Leguizamo) cheats on his wife (Mira Sorvino), then takes her to Plato's Retreat for a disastrous evening of group sex. His best friend, Ritchie (valiant Adrien Brody), is a newborn punk who moonlights as a dancer-stud in a gay porno house. The local lowlifes think Ritchie is weird; he's not neighborhood. So he must...