Word: plutarch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movie Rape, fairly mild compared to Plutarch's version, is based on a short story by Stephen Vincent Benet. Accordingly, the deed is done in Oregon's backwoods rather than in Rome's front yard-and in truth it is not even done...
...just breaks big brother's heart, anyway, to hear them carry on so. But what's to do? He grubs in Plutarch's Lives-one of the two books in the house, in which his wife has been teaching him to read-for a helpful hint, and finds the story of the Sabine women...
Back in Chicago, brother Simon has married for money and made more, but Augie still doesn't know what he wants. An intellectual friend tries to guess: "O King David! O Plutarch and Seneca! O chivalry! . . . O Strozzi Palace. O Weimar! O Don Giovanni, O lineaments of gratified desire! O godlike man! Tell me, pal, am I getting warm?" He is. But by this time, war has come, and Augie, joining the merchant marine, goes to New York. He sees Stella there, marries her and reflects that he doesn't envy his brother, "seeing I was married...
...There still are a few. * Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates, Galen, Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius, Nicomachus, Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Virgil, Plutarch, Tacitus, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Plotinus, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Chaucer, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rabelais, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey, Cervantes, Francis Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Milton, Pascal, Newton, Huygens, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Swift, Sterne, Fielding, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Gibbon, Kant, The Federalist (by Hamilton, Madison and Jay), J. S. Mill, Boswell, Lavoisier, Fourier, Faraday, Hegel, Goethe, Melville, Darwin, Marx, Engels, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, William James, Freud. Most controversial omissions: Luther, Calvin, Moliere, Voltaire, Dickens, Balzac, Einstein...
When he was 16, his father sent him to England to learn "good manners." Young Zadkine came home with long hair and a volume of Plutarch, persuaded his father that Paris was the appropriate place for him, and sculpture the right profession. Except for a World War II sojourn in Manhattan, he has lived in Paris ever since, a tweedy, pipe-smoking little man hammering away at sculptures that were often twice his size. Over the years, his Montparnasse studio has become forested with carvings, and they have spilled over into half the museums of Europe. Recently, he was honored...